The success of ePortfolio-based programming learning style diagnosis: Exploring the role of a heuristic fuzzy knowledge fusion

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 8698-8706

  Huang, Angus F M ^a   Wu, John T H ^b   Yang, Stephen J H ^b   Hwang, Wu Yuin ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Evaluation methodologies; Intelligent tutoring systems; Programming and programming languages; Teaching learning strategies

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT TOOL; DIAGNOSIS SYSTEMS; DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS; E-PORTFOLIOS; EDUCATIONAL AREA; EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT; ELECTRONIC PORTFOLIOS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EVALUATION METHODOLOGIES; FUZZY KNOWLEDGE; HEURISTIC OPTIMIZATION; HEURISTIC OPTIMIZATION METHOD; INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEM; KNOWLEDGE BASIS; KNOWLEDGE FUSION; LEARNING STYLE; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PROGRAMMING AND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; PROGRAMMING LEARNING; TEACHING/LEARNING STRATEGIES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; STUDENTS;

PROGRAM DIAGNOSTICS;

EID: 84862778893     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.01.212     Document Type: Article

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