Mastery Profiling Through Entity Linking - To Support Project Team Formation in Higher Education

Alexander M. Olieman, Frank Nack

2014

Abstract

Computer-supported group formation enables educators to assign students to project teams. The focus in this paper is placed on gathering data about student attributes that are relevant in the context of specific course projects. We developed a method that automatically produces learner models from existing documents, by linking students to topics and estimating the levels of skill, knowledge, and interest that students have in these topics. The method is evaluated in an experiment with student participants, wherein its performance is measured on two levels. Our results demonstrate that it is possible to link students to topics with high precision, but suggest that estimating mastery levels is a more challenging task.

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M. Olieman A. and Nack F. (2014). Mastery Profiling Through Entity Linking - To Support Project Team Formation in Higher Education . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-020-8, pages 182-190. DOI: 10.5220/0004764001820190


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@conference{csedu14,
author={Alexander M. Olieman and Frank Nack},
title={Mastery Profiling Through Entity Linking - To Support Project Team Formation in Higher Education},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2014},
pages={182-190},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004764001820190},
isbn={978-989-758-020-8},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - Mastery Profiling Through Entity Linking - To Support Project Team Formation in Higher Education
SN - 978-989-758-020-8
AU - M. Olieman A.
AU - Nack F.
PY - 2014
SP - 182
EP - 190
DO - 10.5220/0004764001820190