Predicting Student Performance Using Fuzzy Logic

  CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.0       BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY The increasing demand for education in Nigeria especially tertiary education has been an issue in recent times. Government–owned tertiary institutions as well as those privately owned do not possess the capacity and manpower needed to accommodate the growing number of young school leavers hoping to secure admission into any of these tertiary institutions. Huang (2013) posits that predicting and evaluating the academic performances of students has for a long time now been an interesting and important area of research in m…