Assigning students to groups using general and context-specific criteria

IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 178-189

  Hbscher, Roland ^a  

^a BENTLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

coalition formation.; Computer uses in education; constrained optimization; group formation

Indexed keywords

CLASS PROJECTS; COALITION FORMATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS; COMPUTER USES IN EDUCATION; GROUP FORMATION; GROUP MEMBERS; GROUP PROJECTS; SOFTWARE TOOL; TABU SEARCH ALGORITHMS;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; TABU SEARCH;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84857771181     PISSN: 19391382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TLT.2010.17     Document Type: Article

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