Proceedings of International Conference on Applied Innovation in IT
2026/03/31, Volume 14, Issue 1, pp.185-192

Analyzing Student Academic Performance with a Decision Tree Predictive Workflow Model Using Classification Technique


Hasanien K Kuba, Oluwaseun A. Adelaja, Hussein Alkattan, Ali Subhi Alhumaima, Suhaf Ali Hussen and Maad M. Mijwil


Abstract: In the area of Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics, the prediction of students’ academic performance is one of the most paramount aspects as it has improved both teaching approach of lecturers and the learning skills adopted by the students. This study aimed to design a decision tree predictive workflow model which performed classification approach on the students’ dataset by utilizing the KNIME software. The students’ dataset was splits into 80% training dataset while 20% equally for both test and validation dataset. The students were examined with MOODLE platform; confusion matrix generated with WEKA to obtain some evaluation measures (TP rate/Recall, FP rate, Precision, F-Measure, MCC, PRC area and ROC area) and some statistical representations (Bar Chart and Pie Chart) was plotted. We obtained a value of 74% overall accuracy of the model based on the students examined across the four departments as predicted in the WEKA and a value of 26% for the overall error rate.

Keywords: KNIME, Decision Tree Workflow, WEKA, Prediction, Students’ Academic Performance, Classification.

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