Data Mining Studies in Education: Literature Review For The Years 2014-2020

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Data mining is one of the important and beneficial technological developments in education and its usage area is becoming widespread day by day as it includes applications that contribute positively to teaching activities. It is possible to make teaching activities more effective and efficient by transforming the raw data in the field of education into meaningful using data mining techniques. Studies carried out in the field of education between 2014-2020 with data mining methods were scanned from the "Science Direct" database. It was determined that 60 articles from the scanning studies were directly related to data mining in education. The studies include issues such as the development of e-learning systems, pedagogical support, clustering of educational data, and student performance predictions. These selected articles were analyzed in terms of purpose, application area, method, and contribution to the literature. The aim of the study is to group the work carried out in the field of education under specific headings using the data mining process, to evaluate its methods and objectives, and to direct the individuals who will work in this field.