Clustering students to generate an ensemble to improve standard test score predictions

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6738 LNAI, Issue , 2011, Pages 377-384

  Trivedi, Shubhendu ^a   Pardos, Zachary A ^a   Heffernan, Neil T ^a  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Dynamic Assessment; Educational Data Mining; Ensemble Learning; Intelligent Tutoring Systems; Regression

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING; DYNAMIC ASSESSMENT; EDUCATIONAL DATA MINING; ENSEMBLE LEARNING; INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEM; REGRESSION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; RATING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 79959288180     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21869-9_49     Document Type: Conference Paper

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