Abstract
Literature is focusing on identifying factors that influence students’ initial choice of major and few have studied students’ involvements after registration in a selected major and this study is one of the few. This study aims to determine the important factors that influence high school students’ choice of major based on data mining techniques. A questionnaire was designed to collect data from students in different universities in Kuwait and in different faculties such as science, literature, medicine and engineering. Rough set theory for feature selection was used to highlight and explain the significant factors related to students’ skills and preferences awareness as well as their experience reflection that are responsible for the development of their satisfaction with the choice of their university majors. The findings of the study revealed that the calculated reducts have a significant influence on the students’ choice of the university and collage major. This research contributes to literature by identifying the relationship between the conditional factors of the reduct (also known as the independent variables) and the classification attribute (also known as the dependent variable). The results of the study give valuable information to the high school students so they know the best majors which suite their skills, preference and experiences. This research also help students not to continually change their major because of the wrong choice of major they made which accordingly lead them to dissatisfaction of their major.
Highlights
There are thousands of high school students in Kuwait graduate every year
Rough set reduction concepts were used to show the power of the relationship between the classification attribute and the conditional attributes
This process concluded with the required reducts that present the significant factors which are the main keys of choosing the university and college major that suite any student
Summary
Most of them will enroll in government and private universities in different majors based on their choice as well as their GPA in the high school certificate Many students change their major after the first semester or at most after the first year they completed because they could not continue in the current major for different reasons such as they did not like the major, they could not get good GPA and/or they find the current major difficult for them to proceed with. The generated model will be applied to high school students who are going to enter universities in order to advise them and choose a suitable majors for them that guarantee their success and that can put them in high rank between all others graduates who compete them for getting a job
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