An Intelligent Approach to the Assessment of Student Performance

This presentation reports on the design and development of an intelligent technique for predicting the student
performance in a college of engineering. The main function of the system is to investigate the rules that
describe the students' performance and classify them into three different groups based on their expected
performance. The system proposed can support the student admittance procedure by evaluating
and predicting student performance before acceptance to the college as well as assessing the suitability
of the entry exams. The system has been tested using actual student exam results. The experiment
demonstrated that some of the entry exams gave a good indication of the student level while other exams
did not predict the correct student level.