The accurate prediction of student cognitive skill is important, for improving student academic performance.In this paper, a model is proposed to predict the students’ performance in an academic organization. A machine learning algorithm Naïve Bayes is used for prediction. Further, the importance of different cognitive factor is considered, in order to determine which of these are correlated with student performance. Result proves that Naïve Bayes algorithm provides more accuracy over other methods for comparison and prediction.

Cognitive skills, Students’ performance, Machine learning, Naïve Bayes

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