%0 Journal Article %A LI Yufan1 %A ZHANG Huifu2 %A LIU Shangli2 %A TANG Bing1 %T Research Progress on Educational Data Mining %D 2019 %R 10.3778/j.issn.1002-8331.1903-0153 %J Computer Engineering and Applications %P 15-23 %V 55 %N 14 %X Educational Data Mining(EDM) is an interdisciplinary research field which is concerned with three main areas:computer science, education and statistic. Its goal is to better understand students, the settings which they learn in and improve educational effect by exploring the unique data that comes from educational settings. In order to understand research progress on EDM, systematical overview of relative literatures from Web of Science and related research at home and abroad is made firstly. Then educational knowledge discovery and data mining process is introduced. Next, it discusses the data mining technology in the application of four categories in education domain. Finally, some typical instances in rapid development stage are analyzed and discussed. %U http://cea.ceaj.org/EN/10.3778/j.issn.1002-8331.1903-0153