  The main objective of higher education institutions is to provide quality
education to its students. One way to achieve highest level of quality in
higher education system is by discovering knowledge for prediction regarding
enrolment of students in a particular course, alienation of traditional
classroom teaching model, detection of unfair means used in online examination,
detection of abnormal values in the result sheets of the students, prediction
about students' performance and so on. The knowledge is hidden among the
educational data set and it is extractable through data mining techniques.
Present paper is designed to justify the capabilities of data mining techniques
in context of higher education by offering a data mining model for higher
education system in the university. In this research, the classification task
is used to evaluate student's performance and as there are many approaches that
are used for data classification, the decision tree method is used here. By
this task we extract knowledge that describes students' performance in end
semester examination. It helps earlier in identifying the dropouts and students
who need special attention and allow the teacher to provide appropriate
advising/counseling. Keywords-Educational Data Mining (EDM); Classification;
Knowledge Discovery in Database (KDD); ID3 Algorithm.
