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Michalenko, Joshua J.; Lan, Andrew S.; Waters, Andrew E.; Grimaldi, Philip J.; Baraniuk, Richard G. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2017
An important, yet largely unstudied problem in student data analysis is to detect "misconceptions" from students' responses to "open-response" questions. Misconception detection enables instructors to deliver more targeted feedback on the misconceptions exhibited by many students in their class, thus improving the quality of…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Misconceptions, Student Attitudes, Feedback (Response)
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Pérez-Marín, Diana; Pascual-Nieto, Ismael – Behaviour & Information Technology, 2013
A pedagogic conversational agent (PCA) can be defined as a computer system that interacts with the student in natural language assuming the role of the instructor, a student or a companion. It can have a personality and can generate different sentences according to the agent or the student mood. Empathy with the students' feelings seems to…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, Conversational Language Courses, Computer Assisted Instruction, Questionnaires