I'm sorry, but this simply is not true. The PSLC's Datashop has many publicly available educational datasets which have been used by many researchers in many different datamining studies. They are available here: https://pslcdatashop.web.cmu.edu/ On Jul 21, 2012, at 12:53 AM, Beulah Christalin wrote: Though educational data mining is a good research area, there are no publicly available data sets that can be used in mining for this purpose. Tristan Nixon Research Programmer Carnegie Learning, Inc. [http://resources.carnegielearning.com/images/CarnegieLogoGT.png] (888) 851-7094 x123 toll free (412) 690-2444 fax tnixon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.carnegielearning.com<http://www.carnegielearning.com>