Data mining techniques used to analyze students' opinions about computization in the educational system

• Author: Petcu N.
• Pages: 289-298

Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov

Series V: Economic Sciences • Vol. 8 (57) No. 1 - 2015

Data mining techniques used to analyze students’

opinions about computization in the educational

system

Nicoleta PETCU1

Abstract: Both the educational process and the research one, together with institutional

management are unthinkable without the information technologies. Through them, one can

harness the work capacity and creativity of both students and professors. The aim of this

paper is to present the results of a quantitative research regarding: the scope of using

computers, the importance of using them, faculty activities that involve computer usage,

number of hours students work with them at university, Internet and web-sites usage, e-

learning platforms, investments in technology in the faculty and access to computers and

other IT resources. The major conclusions of this research allow us to propose strategies for

increasing the quality, efficiency and transparency of didactic, scientific, administrative and

communication processes.

Key-words: computerization of educational process, quantitative, statistical tests, decision

tree.

1. Introduction

Increasing the usage of information technologies would play a major role in

connecting the education system to the requirements of a society based on

knowledge. In the current situation, where the fast evolution of information

technology makes way in all areas of work, the education system needs state of the

art informatics systems. They, in its turn, have to adapt on an ongoing basis to the

dynamic of nowadays technology. In order to achieve the computerization of the

educational process some new organizational structures, new management methods

and new ways to use information technology are needed (Strajeri, 2009). Acquiring

new knowledge and using it in highly qualified training relies on recent discoveries

from the area of information technologies and communication. For the European

countries the knowledge society has required a computerized educational system. A

report of the European Commission from 2001 mentioned that: „the embodiment of

information and communication technologies in the educational systems is a process

1 Transilvania University of Braşov, nicoleta.petcu@unitbv.ro