ERIC Number: ED560551
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Publication Date: 2015-Jun
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Estimating the Local Size and Coverage of Interaction Network Regions
Eagle, Michael; Barnes, Tiffany
International Educational Data Mining Society, Paper presented at the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) (8th, Madrid, Spain, Jun 26-29, 2015)
Interactive problem solving environments, such as intelligent tutoring systems and educational video games, produce large amounts of transactional data which make it a challenge for both researchers and educators to understand how students work within the environment. Researchers have modeled the student-tutor interactions using complex network representations to automatically derive next-step hints, derive high-level approaches, and create visualizations of student behavior. However, students do not explore the complete problem space. The nonuniform exploration of the problem results in smaller networks and less next-step hints. In this work we explore the possibility of using frequency estimation to uncover locations in the network with differing amounts of student-saturation. Identification of these regions can be used to locate specific problem approaches and strategies that would be most improved by additional student-data. [For complete proceedings, see ED560503.]
Descriptors: Interaction, Teacher Student Relationship, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Data, Educational Games, Problem Solving, Network Analysis, Social Networks, Incidence, Computation, Data Processing, Probability
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Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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