Assessing Student Learning Through Keyword Density Analysis of Online Class Messages

10th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 2984-2990

  Chen, Xin ^a   Wu, Brook ^a  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Density; Distance Learning; Learning Assessment; Noun Phrase

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; E-LEARNING; QUALITY CONTROL;

DENSITY; DISTANCE-LEARNING; INDICATOR SCORES; LEARNING ASSESSMENT; MESSAGE LENGTH; NOUN PHRASE; ONLINE CLASS; PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; STUDENT LEARNING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 85049629257     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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