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Gaining insight into student satisfaction using comprehensible data mining techniques

Gaining insight into student satisfaction using comprehensible data mining techniques
Gaining insight into student satisfaction using comprehensible data mining techniques
As a consequence of the heightened competition on the education market, the management of educational institutions often attempts to collect information on what drives student satisfaction by e.g. organizing large scale surveys amongst the student population. Until now, this source of potentially very valuable information remains largely untapped. In this study, we address this issue by investigating the applicability of different data mining techniques to identify the main drivers of student satisfaction in two business education institutions. In the end, the resulting models are to be used by the management
to support the strategic decision making process. Hence, the aspect of model comprehensibility is considered to be at least equally important as model performance. It is found that data mining techniques are able to select a surprisingly small number of constructs that require attention in order to manage student satisfaction.
data mining, education evaluation, multi class classification, comprehensibility
0377-2217
548-562
Dejaeger, Karel
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Goethals, Frank
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Giangreco, Antonio
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Mola, Lapo
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Baesens, Bart
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Dejaeger, Karel
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Goethals, Frank
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Dejaeger, Karel, Goethals, Frank, Giangreco, Antonio, Mola, Lapo and Baesens, Bart (2012) Gaining insight into student satisfaction using comprehensible data mining techniques. European Journal of Operational Research, 218 (2), 548-562. (doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2011.11.022).

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Abstract

As a consequence of the heightened competition on the education market, the management of educational institutions often attempts to collect information on what drives student satisfaction by e.g. organizing large scale surveys amongst the student population. Until now, this source of potentially very valuable information remains largely untapped. In this study, we address this issue by investigating the applicability of different data mining techniques to identify the main drivers of student satisfaction in two business education institutions. In the end, the resulting models are to be used by the management
to support the strategic decision making process. Hence, the aspect of model comprehensibility is considered to be at least equally important as model performance. It is found that data mining techniques are able to select a surprisingly small number of constructs that require attention in order to manage student satisfaction.

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Published date: 16 April 2012
Keywords: data mining, education evaluation, multi class classification, comprehensibility
Organisations: Southampton Business School

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Local EPrints ID: 336469
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/336469
ISSN: 0377-2217
PURE UUID: 36c82ef7-e4d4-4949-8947-aaff3fa840c2
ORCID for Bart Baesens: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-5831-5668

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Date deposited: 27 Mar 2012 10:09
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:20

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Author: Karel Dejaeger
Author: Frank Goethals
Author: Antonio Giangreco
Author: Lapo Mola
Author: Bart Baesens ORCID iD

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