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Temporally Coherent Clustering of Student Data

Klingler, Severin
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Käser, Tanja  
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Solenthaler, Barbara
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Barnes, Tiffany
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Chi, Min
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2016
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM)
International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM)

The extraction of student behavior is an important task in educational data mining. A common approach to detect similar behavior patterns is to cluster sequential data. Standard approaches identify clusters at each time step separately and typically show low performance for data that inherently suffer from noise, resulting in temporally inconsistent clusters. We propose an evolutionary clustering pipeline that can be applied to learning data, aiming at improving cluster stability over multiple training sessions in the presence of noise. Our model selection is designed such that relevant cluster evolution effects can be captured. The pipeline can be used as a black box for any intelligent tutoring system (ITS). We show that our method outperforms previous work regarding clustering performance and stability on synthetic data. Using log data from two ITS, we demonstrate that the proposed pipeline is able to detect interesting student behavior and properties of learning environments.

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conference paper
Author(s)
Klingler, Severin
Käser, Tanja  
Solenthaler, Barbara
Gross, Markus
Editors
Barnes, Tiffany
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Chi, Min
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Feng, Mingyu
Date Issued

2016

Publisher

EDM

Published in
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM)
Start page

102

End page

109

Subjects

Distance Metrics

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Evolutionary Clustering

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Markov Chains

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Sequence Mining

URL

ETH Zurich - Research Collection

https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/127413
Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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OTHER

EPFL units
ML4ED  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM)

Raleigh, NC, USA

June 29 - July 2, 2016

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July 14, 2020
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