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Heiner, Cecily; Zachary, Joseph L. – International Working Group on Educational Data Mining, 2009
Students in introductory programming classes often articulate their questions and information needs incompletely. Consequently, the automatic classification of student questions to provide automated tutorial responses is a challenging problem. This paper analyzes 411 questions from an introductory Java programming course by reducing the natural…
Descriptors: Classification, Questioning Techniques, Introductory Courses, Computer Science Education
Madhyastha, Tara M.; Tanimoto, Steven – International Working Group on Educational Data Mining, 2009
Most of the emphasis on mining online assessment logs has been to identify content-specific errors. However, the pattern of general "consistency" is domain independent, strongly related to performance, and can itself be a target of educational data mining. We demonstrate that simple consistency indicators are related to student outcomes,…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Software, Computer Science Education