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Hardof-Jaffe, Sharon; Hershkovitz, Arnon; Abu-Kishk, Hama; Bergman, Ofer; Nachmias, Rafi – International Working Group on Educational Data Mining, 2009
The purpose of this study is to empirically reveal strategies of students' organization of learning-related digital materials within an online personal information archive. Research population included 518 students who utilized the personal Web space allocated to them on the university servers for archiving information items, and data describing…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Organization, Information Management, Undergraduate Students
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
Dekker, Gerben W.; Pechenizkiy, Mykola; Vleeshouwers, Jan M. – International Working Group on Educational Data Mining, 2009
The monitoring and support of university freshmen is considered very important at many educational institutions. In this paper we describe the results of the educational data mining case study aimed at predicting the Electrical Engineering (EE) students drop out after the first semester of their studies or even before they enter the study program…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Engineering Education, College Freshmen, Case Studies