Discovery of the effect of student backgrounds on student success in vocational education by data mining techniques

It is possible to enrich learning activities of students and direct them to be successful via a correct analysis and assesment. During the measuring success in educational and teaching processes, to make a correct detection on educational background of student and noting the interaction of student with environment besides educational activities comes at beginning of the most important factors. It will be possible to evaluate the current success and predict the future success with an elaborate investigation. The aim of this study is to determine ?educational background of student? factor effecting the success of students in vocational high school by data mining methods.Key Words: Data Mining, Vocational Education, Factors affecting the success of