... is suspected to give a higher score to contestants from the same university. Design/methodology/approach The association rule of data mining is used to accomplish the objective of the study. To demonstrate the applicability of the method, the data set from the annual national university student competition...

... Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Big data Data mining Higher education Learning analytics Predictive analytics Strategic value In 21st century higher education institutions (HEIs), the learning focus is shifting to learner-centered rather than the earlier...

... and specific recommendations for improving their performance. Figure 2 The report diagnosis and recommendations © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Data mining Learning analytics Academic writing Change of behaviours Early alert...

... the students, the authors use cluster analysis, one of the tools of data mining, to see if students in particular majors share similar strengths based on the available data. The authors follow up this analysis by running a multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) to confirm that the means of the clusters...