Predicting students' final performance from participation in on-line discussion forums

Computers and Education

Volumn 68, Issue , 2013, Pages 458-472

  Romero, Cristóbal ^a   López, Manuel Ignacio ^a   Luna, Jose María ^a   Ventura, Sebastián ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Asynchronous discussion forums; Data mining; Distance education and telelearning; Predicting performance; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONOUS DISCUSSION FORUMS; CLASS ASSOCIATION RULES; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; DISTANCE EDUCATION AND TELE-LEARNING; PREDICTING PERFORMANCE; STUDENT PERFORMANCE; UNIVERSITY STUDENTS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; CURRICULA; DATA MINING; DISTANCE EDUCATION; FORECASTING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

STUDENTS;

EID: 84880300450     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2013.06.009     Document Type: Article

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