Skill set profile clustering based on student capability vectors computed from online tutoring data

Educational Data Mining 2008 - 1st International Conference on Educational Data Mining, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 210-217

  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

CAPABILITY VECTORS; CLUSTERING METHODS; COGNITIVE DIAGNOSIS; EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH; INTERPRETABILITY; MATRIX; SIMULATED DATASETS;

DATA MINING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 79953004435     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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