Data mining and it's application in EDM domain

Educational Data Mining is an emerging domain in the field of data mining and has been found of utmost importance because of its significance in predicting student dropout or the student at risk of failing a subject by using several powerful data mining techniques. This is a paper presenting a compilation of several research work conducted in this field previously. It gives a brief about the science of data mining, EDM, different tools used in for conducting data mining process etc. The goals of EDM have also been explained along with the several stages the data-set pass before it's fed to the classifier for generating results. A brief about various algorithms employed in the field of EDM is provided and their basic features are also mentioned.