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EDM
2009
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Dimensions of Difficulty in Translating Natural Language into First-Order Logic
In this paper, we present a study of a large corpus of student logic exercises in which we explore the relationship between two distinct measures of difficulty: the proportion of s...
Dave Barker-Plummer, Richard Cox, Robert Dale
EDM
2009
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Predicting Students Drop Out: A Case Study
The monitoring and support of university freshmen is considered very important at many educational institutions. In this paper we describe the results of the educational data minin...
Gerben Dekker, Mykola Pechenizkiy, Jan Vleeshouwer...
EDM
2009
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Learning Factors Transfer Analysis: Using Learning Curve Analysis to Automatically Generate Domain Models
This paper describes a novel method to create a quantitative model of an educational content domain of related practice item-types using learning curves. By using a pairwise test t...
Philip I. Pavlik Jr., Hao Cen, Kenneth R. Koedinge...
EDM
2009
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Detecting and Understanding the Impact of Cognitive and Interpersonal Conflict in Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Envi
This paper presents a model which can automatically detect a variety of student speech acts as students collaborate within a computer supported collaborative learning environment. ...
David Prata, Ryan Baker, Evandro Costa, Carolyn Pe...
EDM
2009
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Using Dirichlet priors to improve model parameter plausibility
Student modeling is a widely used approach to make inference about a student's attributes like knowledge, learning, etc. If we wish to use these models to analyze and better u...
Dovan Rai, Yue Gong, Joseph Beck
EDM
2009
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an Argument Learning Environment Using Agent-Based ITS (ALES)
This paper presents an agent-based educational environment to teach argument analysis (ALES). The idea is based on the Argumentation Interchange Format Ontology (AIF) using "W...
Safia Abbas, Hajime Sawamura
EDM
2009
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Process Mining Online Assessment Data
Traditional data mining techniques have been extensively applied to find interesting patterns, build descriptive and predictive models from large volumes of data accumulated throug...
Mykola Pechenizkiy, Nikola Trcka, Ekaterina Vasily...
EDM
2009
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Student Consistency and Implications for Feedback in Online Assessment Systems
Abstract. Most of the emphasis on mining online assessment logs has been to identify contentspecific errors. However, the pattern of general "consistency" is domain indep...
Tara M. Madhyastha, Steven L. Tanimoto
EDM
2009
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A Data Mining Approach to Reveal Representative Collaboration Indicators in Open Collaboration Frameworks
Data mining methods are successful in educational environments to discover new knowledge or learner skills or features. Unfortunately, they have not been used in depth with collabo...
Antonio R. Anaya, Jesus Boticario