As we have broad proportion of data in the industry so examine that information and concentrate the helpful data by applying particular information mining strategies.With the help of technique like association rule mining, we can find different pattern of student performance by taking different measures of student like their course, their study of hour, monthly income of parents, and their background sources and many others. In this survey paper we have mainly two goals, the first is to advance development of education, the second is to organize the data and improve the student performance and their learning behaviour by applying different data mining techniques. It has been seen that methods of education data mining are different from standard data mining methods. In educational data mining we mainly need to focus on data that are related to student learning and their performance.

Keywords: education data mining; student learning, performance assessment