Exploring user data from a game-like math tutor: A case study in causal modeling

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 307-311

  Rai, D ^a   Beck, J E ^a  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Case study; Causal modeling; Confounders; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

CAUSAL MODEL; CAUSAL MODELING; CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS; CONFOUNDERS; CORRELATION MATRIX; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; INDIRECT EFFECTS; MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; USER DATA;

BLENDING; DATA MINING;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84857477634     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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