Artificial intelligence and tutoring systems: computational and cognitive approaches to the communication of knowledge
Extending Domain Theories: Two Case Studies in Student Modeling
Machine Learning
Deductive error diagnosis and inductive error generalization for intelligent tutoring systems
Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education
THEMIS: a nonmonotonic inductive student modeling system
Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education
Refinement-based student modeling and automated bug library construction
Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education
Concept mapping as cognitive learning and assessment tools
Journal of Interactive Learning Research - Special double issue on concept mapping
A Space-Economical Suffix Tree Construction Algorithm
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics: An Applied Introduction
Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics: An Applied Introduction
Efficient mining of traversal patterns
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Building web warehouse
Data Mining: Introductory and Advanced Topics
Data Mining: Introductory and Advanced Topics
ICDE '95 Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Data Engineering
Fast Algorithms for Mining Association Rules in Large Databases
VLDB '94 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
An Approach for Automatic Learning and Inference by Knowledge Map
ICCE '02 Proceedings of the International Conference on Computers in Education
Web usage mining: discovery and applications of usage patterns from Web data
ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter
Mining Learner Profile Utilizing Association Rule for Common Learning Misconception Diagnosis
ICALT '05 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies
An intelligent learning diagnosis system for Web-based thematic learning platform
Computers & Education
Mining learner profile utilizing association rule for web-based learning diagnosis
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Extracting learning concepts from educational texts in intelligent tutoring systems automatically
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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In a classroom, a teacher attempts to convey his or her knowledge to the students, and thus it is important for the teacher to obtain formative feedback about how well students are understanding the new material. By gaining insight into the students' understanding and possible misconceptions, the teacher will be able to adjust the teaching and to supply more useful learning materials as necessary. Therefore, the diagnosis of formative student evalutions is critical for teachers and learners, as is the diagnosis of patterns in the overall learning by a class in order to inform a teacher about the efficacy of his or her teaching. This paper investigates what might be called the "class learning diagnosis problem" by embedding important concepts in a test and analyzing the results with a hierarchical coding scheme. Based on previous research, the part-of and type-of relationships among concepts are used to construct a concept hierarchy that may then be coded hierarchically. All concepts embedded in the test items then can be formulated into concept matrices, and the answer sheets of the learners in a class are then analyzed to indicate particular types of concept errors. The trajectories of concept errors are studied to identify both individual misconceptions students might have as well as patterns of misunderstanding in the overall class. In particular, a clustering algorithm is employed to distinguish student groups who might share similar misconceptions. These approaches are implemented as an integrated module in a previously developed system and applied to two real classroom data sets, the results of which show the practicability of this proposed method.