Modeling student online learning using clustering

  • Authors:
  • Cen Li;Jungsoon Yoo

  • Affiliations:
  • Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN;Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 44th annual Southeast regional conference
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper discusses and evaluates a modeling approach for student online learning. It is developed as a key component of an adaptive online tutoring system, AToL. At the beginning of the learning process, classification of student learning style is applied based on each student's responses to a few learning related questions. Clustering is then used to model student behavior for each learning style using data collected as the students interact with the system. A Bayesian Markov chain based temporal data clustering method is developed for this step. We evaluated the student modeling component of the AToL system using data collected from the CS-I students who participated in the experiments in Spring 05. We compared the quality of the models built using these two approaches. We also compared the models built for the same group of students when learning different concepts.