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                                                                                    <journal-title>Yönetim Bilişim Sistemleri Dergisi</journal-title>
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                            <issn pub-type="ppub">2630-550X</issn>
                                        <issn pub-type="epub">2630-550X</issn>
                                                                                            <publisher>
                    <publisher-name>Dokuz Eylul University</publisher-name>
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                                                            <subject>Decision Support and Group Support Systems</subject>
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                                                            <subject>Karar Desteği ve Grup Destek Sistemleri</subject>
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                                                                                                                        <article-title>ÜNİVERSİTE ÖĞRENCİLERİNİN DERS SEÇİM EĞİLİMLERİNİN BİRLİKTELİK ANALİZİ: FP-GROWTH VE APRİORİ ALGORİTMALARININ KARŞILAŞTIRMALI ANALİZİ</article-title>
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                                    <trans-title>ASSOCIATION ANALYSIS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS&#039; COURSE SELECTION PATTERNS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF FP-GROWTH AND APRIORI ALGORITHMS</trans-title>
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                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Çinar</surname>
                                    <given-names>Derya</given-names>
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                                                                    <aff>AYDIN ADNAN MENDERES ÜNİVERSİTESİ</aff>
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                                        <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="20251224">
                    <day>12</day>
                    <month>24</month>
                    <year>2025</year>
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                                        <volume>11</volume>
                                        <issue>2</issue>
                                        <fpage>32</fpage>
                                        <lpage>44</lpage>
                        
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                                    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="20251023">
                        <day>10</day>
                        <month>23</month>
                        <year>2025</year>
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                                                    <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="20251205">
                        <day>12</day>
                        <month>05</month>
                        <year>2025</year>
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                    <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2015, </copyright-statement>
                    <copyright-year>2015</copyright-year>
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                                                                                                <abstract><p>Bu çalışma, üniversite öğrencilerinin seçmeli ders tercihleri arasındaki gizli örüntüleri ortaya çıkarmak amacıyla veri madenciliği (Data Mining) tekniklerinden biri olan birliktelik kuralı yöntemini kullanmaktadır. Aydın Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi Söke Meslek Yüksekokulu Halkla İlişkiler ve Tanıtım Bölümü öğrencilerinin 2014-2025 yıllarını kapsayan 26066 ders kaydı, SQL ile filtrelenerek sadece seçmeli ve bölüm dışı seçmeli dersleri içerecek şekilde işlenmiş ve analiz için 702 geçerli kayıt elde edilmiştir. Çalışmada Apriori ve FP-Growth (Frequent Pattern-Growth) algoritmaları WEKA yazılımı aracılığıyla uygulanmış; üretilen kurallar destek, güven ve kaldıraç metriklerine göre değerlendirilmiştir. Analizler, iki farklı öğrenci eğilimini ortaya koymuştur: FP-Growth algoritması, öğrencilerin çoğunluğu tarafından yüksek güvenle (%99&#039;a varan) birlikte tercih edilen popüler bir ders kümesini (HIT253, HIT255, HIT257) belirlemiştir. Apriori algoritması ise daha küçük bir öğrenci grubunun mutlak bir kesinlikle (%100 güvenle) aldığı, DTS180 ve TTI253 dersleri etrafında şekillenen spesifik bir ders paketini keşfetmiştir. Elde edilen bulgular, akademik danışmanlık süreçlerinin veriye dayalı olarak iyileştirilmesine ve müfredat planlamasında seçmeli ders havuzlarının daha etkin tasarlanmasına katkı sağlama potansiyeli taşımaktadır. Çalışma ayrıca, kullanılan algoritmaların aynı veri kümesi üzerinden farklı türde örüntüleri nasıl ortaya çıkarabildiğini karşılaştırmalı olarak ele alarak alana yöntemsel bir bakış açısı da sunmaktadır.</p></abstract>
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                            <p>This study employs association rule mining, a data mining technique, to uncover hidden patterns among university students’ elective course preferences. Based on 26,066 course enrollment records from the Public Relations and Promotion Program at Aydın Adnan Menderes University, Söke Vocational School, between 2014 and 2025, data preprocessing via SQL filtering resulted in 702 valid records for analysis. The Apriori and FP-Growth algorithms were applied using WEKA software, and the extracted rules were evaluated based on support, confidence, and lift metrics. The analyses revealed two distinct student behavior patterns: The FP-Growth algorithm identified a popular cluster of courses (HIT253, HIT255, HIT257) chosen together by the majority of students with high confidence (up to 99%). In contrast, the Apriori algorithm discovered a more specific package of courses, centered around DTS180 and TTI253, selected with absolute certainty (100% confidence) by a smaller group of students. The discovered patterns hold the potential to enhance data-driven academic advising processes and contribute to the more effective design of elective course pools within the curriculum. Furthermore, the study offers a methodological perspective by comparatively analyzing how these algorithms can reveal different types of patterns from the same dataset.</p></trans-abstract>
                                                            
            
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                                                    <kwd>Veri madenciliği</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  birliktelik analizi</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Apriori</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  FP-Growth</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  seçmeli ders</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  yüksek öğrenim</kwd>
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                                                    <kwd>Data mining</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  association analysis</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Apriori</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  FP-Growth</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  elective courses</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  higher education</kwd>
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