Application of association rules for finding correlations among students preliminary knowledge

  • Authors:
  • Sylvia Encheva;Sharil Tumin

  • Affiliations:
  • Stord/Haugesund University College, Haugesund, Norway;IT-Dept., University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

  • Venue:
  • CDVE'06 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper aims at finding an efficient way for discovering which specific knowledge each student does not possess in order to successfully start a new course or to proceed with another section in a current subject. Most existing tutoring systems respond to students’ mistakes by providing links to a collection of teaching materials. Such an approach does the individual needs of each student. Our idea is to apply a holistic approach that involves looking at the whole system of each student knowledge within an subject rather than just concentrating on single mistakes, lack of knowledge or misconception.