Fuzzy clustering and its application in education of gifted students

Abstract

The article deals with the application of the Fuzzy Clustering in education and also the identification of gifted students by the individualizing system of Mastery Learning. In Mastery Learning we group the students according their type and level of giftedness and increase student's motivation and learning effectivity hereby. For dividing students into groups several evaluation tests are used. Fuzzy clustering brings the possibility how to evaluate partial outcomes (criteria) with different conditions and relevance. The article describes application of Fuzzy Clustering in concrete case study, which aim was to find the most efficient group group of gifted students.