Application of fuzzy logic on students' performannce in calculus / Nur Alia Mohd Zailani

There is a significant decline recently at UiTM Perlis Branch with students’ performance
in the mathematics subject such as Calculus. This rate of failure gives a big impact to
students’ achievements at university level. It is important to know what is affecting
students’ performance in mathematics subjects because it can help to reduce the rate of
failure among students at UiTM Perlis Branch. The aims for this research is to investigate
the relationship between the previous SPM grades and performance in Calculus. This
study is also used to determine whether students’ attitudes towards mathematics affect
students’ performance. The fuzzy logic approach has been used to evaluate the academic
performance of students. By using fuzzy logic approach, the input are analyzed by
MATLAB (version R2017a) to obtain the final output. The results from the study shows
mathematical background affects most of the students’ performance in Calculus compared
to students’ attitudes such as students’ interest, learning style and awareness towards
mathematics subject.