A comparison of student skill knowledge estimates

EDM'09 - Educational Data Mining 2009: 2nd International Conference on Educational Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-10

  Ayers, Elizabeth ^a   Nugent, Rebecca ^a   Dean, Nema ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING METHODS; COGNITIVE DIAGNOSIS; EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH; MATRIX; MISSING VALUES; SIMULATED DATA; STUDENT SKILLS;

DATA MINING; ESTIMATION;

STUDENTS;

EID: 77958150738     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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