Abstract
When students are working together solving a Java programming problem, can a computer gauge how often they show understanding? In the COMPS project, students in small groups engage in typed-chat problem-solving dialogues. This project applies topic modeling and text analytics toward computer assessment of the degree to which students are constructively discussing the problem. The aim is to provide a real-time assessment of the state of the conversation to an instructor overseeing the online conversations. Here we report on training machine classifiers to recognize parts of the dialogue where the students are reasoning about the Java problems.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 19-Nov |
| Journal | The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges |
| Volume | vol. 33 |
| Issue number | no. 2 |
| State | Published - 2017 |