A method for finding prerequisites within a curriculum

EDM 2011 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Educational Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 211-215

  Vuong, Annalies ^a   Nixon, Tristan ^a   Towle, Brendon ^a  

^a Carnegie Learning Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Curriculum; Data mining; Intelligent tutor

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE TUTORS; CURRICULUM DESIGNS; DATA-DRIVEN MODEL; DEPENDENCY RELATIONSHIP; DEPENDENCY STRUCTURES; INTELLIGENT TUTORS; KNOWLEDGE BUILDING; RANDOM SAMPLE; SMALL SAMPLES; STUDENT SKILLS;

DATA MINING; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

CURRICULA;

EID: 84857468767     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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