Analysis of felder-silverman index of learning styles by a data-driven statistical approach

ISM 2006 - 8th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 959-964

  Viola, Silvia Rita ^a   Graf, Sabine ^b   Kinshuk, ^c   Leo, Tommaso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; KETONES; LANDING; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

(2+1) DIMENSIONS; ACCURATE MODELING; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA DRIVEN (DD); DATA DRIVEN ANALYSIS; DATA-DRIVEN METHODS; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; LEARNING STYLES; MATHEMATICAL REPRESENTATIONS; MULTIPLE CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS (MCA); STATISTICAL APPROACHES;

TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

EID: 46249107412     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISM.2006.30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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