In short, educational data mining is a young research field, but is already recognized as of utmostimportance to allow the development of more specialized and oriented work in education. It isexpected that EDM can obtain a similar application success level as data mining has obtained in otherareas, such as medical data mining, mining e-commerce data, etc.As shown in Table 4, some common educational tasks may support research in computationalintelligence, thus providing useful information that may be used by decision-makers to improve thequality of general education.