Handbook of Educational Data Mining (Hardcover)

Handbook of Educational Data Mining (EDM) provides a thorough overview of the current state of knowledge in this area. The first part of the book includes nine surveys and tutorials on the principal data mining techniques that have been applied in education. The second part presents a set of 25 case studies that give a rich overview of the problems that EDM has addressed.

Researchers at the Forefront of the Field Discuss Essential Topics and the Latest Advances
With contributions by well-known researchers from a variety of fields, the book reflects the multidisciplinary nature of the EDM community. It brings the educational and data mining communities together, helping education experts understand what types of questions EDM can address and helping data miners understand what types of questions are important to educational design and educational decision making.

Encouraging readers to integrate EDM into their research and practice, this timely handbook offers a broad, accessible treatment of essential EDM techniques and applications. It provides an excellent first step for newcomers to the EDM community and for active researchers to keep abreast of recent developments in the field.

《教育資料挖掘手冊》（EDM）提供了對該領域現有知識的全面概述。書籍的第一部分包括九篇關於在教育領域應用的主要資料挖掘技術的調查和教程。第二部分則呈現了25個案例研究，豐富地介紹了EDM所解決的問題。

該書由來自不同領域的知名研究人員貢獻，反映了EDM社群的多學科性質。它將教育和資料挖掘社群聚集在一起，幫助教育專家了解EDM可以解決哪些問題，同時也幫助資料挖掘人員了解教育設計和教育決策中哪些問題是重要的。

本手冊鼓勵讀者將EDM融入他們的研究和實踐中，提供了對基本EDM技術和應用的廣泛、易於理解的介紹。對於EDM社群的新成員來說，它是一個很好的起點；對於活躍的研究人員來說，它可以讓他們了解該領域的最新發展。