Investigating the solution space of an open-ended educational game using conceptual feature extraction

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, EDM 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Harpstead, Erik ^a   MacLellan, Christopher J ^a   Koedinger, Kenneth R ^a   Aleven, Vincent ^a   Dow, Steven P ^a   Myers, Brad A ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Context free grammars; Educational games; Representation learning

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT FREE GRAMMARS; DATA MINING; EXTRACTION;

AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION; CLUSTERING; EDUCATIONAL GAME; LARGE AMOUNTS; PLAYER EXPERIENCE; REPRESENTATION LEARNING; SOLUTION SPACE; SPECIFIC LEARNING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 85084015981     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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