Analyzing academic achievement of junior high school students by an improved rough set model

Computers and Education

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 889-900

  Pai, Ping Feng ^a   Lyu, Yi Jia ^a   Wang, Yu Min ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHI NAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Evaluation methodologies; Secondary education; Teaching learning strategies

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS; EMPIRICAL RESULTS; EVALUATION METHODOLOGIES; INFERENCE RULES; INTERACTIVE INTERFACES; JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ROUGH SET MODELS; TEACHING/LEARNING STRATEGY;

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EDUCATION COMPUTING; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

ROUGH SET THEORY;

EID: 77249083600     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2009.09.018     Document Type: Article

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