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Mining Diagnostic Assessment Data for Concept Similarity
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Madhyastha, Tara; Hunt, Earl – Journal of Educational Data Mining, 2009
This paper introduces a method for mining multiple-choice assessment data for similarity of the concepts represented by the multiple choice responses. The resulting similarity matrix can be used to visualize the distance between concepts in a lower-dimensional space. This gives an instructor a visualization of the relative difficulty of concepts…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Multiple Choice Tests, Concept Formation, Schematic Studies