Semi-Automatic Generation of Competency Maps Based on Educational Data Mining

• Main Authors: David Alfonso, Angeles Manjarrés, Simon Pickin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Atlantis Press
• Series: International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems
• Subjects: Educational data mining; Concept maps; Bayesian networks; Recommender systems; E-Learning content authoring tools
• Online Access: https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/125912234/view
• ISSN: 1875-6883

We propose a semi-automatic method for the generation of educational-competency maps from repositories of multiple-choice question responses, using Bayesian structural learning and data-mining techniques. We tested our method on a large repository of responses to multiple-choice exam questions from an undergraduate course in Languages and Automata Theory at Spain's national distance-learning university (UNED). We also draw up guidelines and best practices, with a view to defining an educational data-mining methodology and to contributing to the development of educational data-mining tools.