Fuzzy Data Warehouse in the Field of Education

Abstract

Currently, educational organizations have a large amount of local information from their academic processes, curricular management processes, diagnostic processes of university admission, among others. Also, educational organizations have access to large external databases with standardized test information that students have taken. In this sense, the data warehouse (DW) is presented as a technology that makes it possible to integrate educational information because it provides for the storage of large amounts of information that come from different sources, in a multidimensionally structured format for historical analysis. In this chapter, the authors present one example of DW applied to the field of education using fuzzy logic. A fuzzy DW will be defined as “a DW that allows storing and operating fuzzy measures, fuzzy relationships between levels and fuzzy levels.” This chapter ends with a critical discussion of the advances and possibilities of technologies such as the DW applied to the field of education.