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The application of informatics in the university system management allows managers to count with a great amount of data which, rationally treated, can offer significant help for the student programming monitoring. This research proposes the use of clustering techniques as a useful tool of management strategy to evaluate the progression of the students’ behavior by dividing the population into homogeneous groups according to their characteristics and skills. These applications can help both the teacher and the student to improve the quality of education. The selected method is the data grouping analysis by means of fuzzy logic using the Fuzzy C-means algorithm to achieve a standard indicator called Grade, through an expert system to enable segmentation.
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Varela, N. et al. (2019). Student Performance Assessment Using Clustering Techniques. In: Tan, Y., Shi, Y. (eds) Data Mining and Big Data. DMBD 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1071. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9563-6_19
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