A comparative analysis of mining techniques for automatic detection of student's learning style

Proceedings of the 2010 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, ISDA'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 877-882

  Hj Ahmad, Nor Bahiah ^a   Shamsuddin, Siti Mariyam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Classification; Educational data mining; Felder Silverman model; Learning styles

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; CLASSIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION RULES; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; CROSS VALIDATION; EDUCATIONAL DATA MINING; FELDER SILVERMAN MODEL; KAPPA STATISTIC; LEARNING STYLE; LEARNING STYLES; MINING TECHNIQUES; TRAINING ERRORS; TREE CLASSIFIERS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLASSIFIERS; DATA MINING; DECISION TREES; E-LEARNING; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; STUDENTS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 79851479403     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISDA.2010.5687150     Document Type: Conference Paper

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