What Makes Teacher Students Become Official Teachers -- A Preliminary Exploration of Critical Predictors Based on Data Mining Techniques

This study tries to help answer some questions encountered by the decision makers of teacher training program: which factors are more critical to lead the teacher students to success, i, e, to become official teachers. A total of 2010 student records were collected and thousands of courses taken by the students are categorized into six knowledge types. A decision tree learned from these data with 23 attributes was able to inform which learning...