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Some of the applications of these techniques to fulll the goals of an educa-
tional setting include the following:
◾ A case-study description of the application of several techniques to help
in identifying students at risk and who may not have sucient training
(Merceron and Yacef 2005)
◾ Analysis of tutor–student interactions (Mostow et al. 2005)
◾ An examination of the eectiveness of an EDM method, learning factors
analysis on improving the learning eciency in the cognitive tutor curricu-
lum (Cen et al. 2007)
◾ e application of DM in learning management systems and a case-study
tutorial with the Moodle system (Romero et al. 2008)
◾ A comparison of several methods and techniques for classifying students
based on ...