V knige rassmatrivayutsya protsessy sbora, obrabotki i analiza dannykh obrazovatel"nogo protsessa v vysshey shkole. Privoditsya primer postroeniya avtomatizirovannoy sistemy monitoringa samostoyatel"noy raboty uchashchikhsya. Predlagayutsya razlichnye metody analiza i interpretatsii poluchennykh dannykh, v tom chisle, s pomoshch"yu metodov OLAP i Data Mining. Issledovaniya provedeny na osnove materialov, poluchennykh v Sibirskom gosudarstvennom tekhnologicheskom universitete.