Identifying transfer of inquiry skills across physical science simulations using educational data mining

Proceedings of International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS

Volumn 1, Issue January, 2014, Pages 222-229

  Pedro, Michael Sao ^a   Jiang, Yang ^b   Paquette, Luc ^b   Baker, Ryan S ^b   Gobert, Janice ^a  

^a WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; DATA MINING; EDUCATION; STATISTICAL TESTS;

ASSESSMENT METRICS; BAYESIAN KNOWLEDGE TRACINGS; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; DOMAIN SPECIFICITY; EDUCATIONAL DATA MINING; LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; PHYSICAL SCIENCE;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84937864161     PISSN: 18149316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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