Student's academic performance is a prime concern to high level educational institution since it will reflect the performance of the institution. The differences in academic performance among students are topics that has drawn interest of many academic researchers and our society. One of the biggest challenges in universities decision making and planning today is to predict the performance of their students at the early stage prior to their admission. We address the application of inferring the degree classification of students using their background data in the dataset obtained from one of the high level educational institutions in Malaysia. We present the results of a detailed statistical analysis relating to the final degree classification obtained at the end of their studies and their backgrounds. Classification tree model produce the highest accuracy in predicting student's degree classification using their background data as compared to Bayesion network and naive Bayes. The signi.....

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Classification tree models are known for their simplicity and efficiency when dealing with domains contain large number of variables and cases. However, a small perturbation in the data, can lead to a very different tree. We introduce a method for measuring similarity between binary classification trees based on the similarity between the classification paths. The trees to be compared are represented in the form of matrices whose entries are in the interval [0,1]. Overlap similarity measure is used to measure the similarity between each pair of path in two trees, and the best matching paths between trees are used to calculate the similarity measure. This method has advantage to measure trees that possess the same structure and leaf nodes but different internal node...

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Keperluan terhadap suatu sistem pemilihan pelajar untuk memasuki sesuatu program atau jurusan di pusat pengajian tinggi semakin penting ekoran daripada pertambahan dalamjumlahpemohon. Pemilihan yang diamalkan sekarang menghasilkan pemilihan yang sering dirunguti calon kerana kononnya mereka tidak terpilih sedangkan kelayakannya lebih baik daripada rakannya atau tidak terpilih bidang yang dikehendaki. Oleh itu satu kaedah yang lebih sistematik perlu dibentuk dari sekarang supaya proses pemilihan pelajar ke pusat pengajian tinggi dapat dirasakan oleh calonnya lebih adil lagi. Berdasarkan senario di atas, model Pengaturcaraan gol (PaG) dibina untuk mengumpulkan pelajar-pelajar Melayu lepasan diploma ke program pengajian yang ditawarkan oleh Fakulti Sains dan Teknologi (FST), Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPS!). Model PaG ini memaksimumkan pengambilan pelajar, menseimbangkan agihan pelajar mengikut jantina dan mempertimbangkan keutamaan pilihan pelajar. Pelajar yang mempunyai purata .....

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