A Study on the Awareness Level of EDM & Tools

The aim of this research paper is to study the awareness level among the research scholars of various disciplines, educational administrators and the post graduate students regarding the data mining software tools and its applications. It focuses the infrastructure and software facilities and the implementation of educational data mining tools on decision making processes available in the government colleges and the private colleges in a particular university system. This paper surveys the data mining software tools and the awareness among the researchers and post graduate students of different disciplines. First it studies the awareness level among the researchers, and then it analysis the infrastructure facilities available in the university affiliated colleges. This research work show how the data mining software knowledge influences the decision making process. Data mining tools helps the researchers and administrators to arrive a accurate decision through the application of statistics. Educators are possible to predict the learners' performance based on their students' attendance, punctuality, task and project completion capability, mobile usage, infrastructure availability and their personal factors such as family background, peer groups, intelligence, past performance, etc. Those who have learnt more than two data mining tools had better in their research works. Knowing data mining tools enhances the researcher's capability in statistics which leads to more and frequent journal publication related to their research. Computer science graduates and researchers have more knowledge in the data mining & statistics methods than the other discipline researchers.