Identifying Students' Mechanistic Explanations in Textual Responses to Science Questions with Association Rule Mining

Proceedings - 15th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshop, ICDMW 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 264-268

  Guo, Yu ^a   Xing, Wanli ^b   Lee, Hee Sun ^c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c Concord Consortium ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

assessment; association rule mining; learning analytics; mechanistic reasoning; science education

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION RULES; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA MINING; EDUCATION; TEACHING;

ASSESSMENT; AUTOMATED METHODS; INSTRUCTIONAL INTERVENTIONS; KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURES; LEARNING ANALYTICS; MECHANISTIC REASONING; SCIENCE EDUCATION; SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84964744534     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDMW.2015.225     Document Type: Conference Paper

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