Title :
Supporting tutoring by improved statistical analysis of discussion forum
Author :
Accorroni, M. ; Bentivoglio, C.A.
Author_Institution :
Dipt. di Sci. dell´´Educazione e della Formazione, Univ. di Macerata, Macerata
Abstract :
The Web forum is a key tool in new knowledge building among students in learning management systems. Unfortunately, the huge number of messages makes difficult, for tutors and teachers, to quickly evaluate the progress of their students so, an automated support to the analysis is needed. Our solution relies on simple statistical indices inspired by the work in the text analysis field. The obtained results show, in some cases, good performance with a minimum computational effort.
Keywords :
Internet; computer aided instruction; statistical analysis; text analysis; Web forum; discussion forum; knowledge building; learning management systems; statistical analysis; text analysis; Automatic control; Control systems; Discussion forums; Manufacturing processes; Robots; Shape control; Statistical analysis; Temperature control; Weight control; Welding; Content ranking; forum analysis; keyword automatic extraction;
Conference_Titel :
Human System Interactions, 2009. HSI '09. 2nd Conference on
Conference_Location :
Catania
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3959-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3960-7
DOI :
10.1109/HSI.2009.5091023
