Journal
EXPERT SYSTEMS
Volume 30, Issue 2, Pages 162-172Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0394.2012.00627.x
Keywords
Educational data mining; computer-based testing; association rule mining; grammar-guided genetic programming
Funding
- Regional Government of Andalucia [P08-TIC-3720]
- Ministry of Science and Technology [TIN-2011-22408]
- FEDER funds
- Spanish Ministry of Education under the FPU grant [AP2010-0041]
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This paper proposes the application of association rule mining to improve quizzes and courses. First, the paper shows how to preprocess quiz data and how to create several data matrices for use in the process of knowledge discovery. Next, the proposed algorithm that uses grammar-guided genetic programming is described and compared with both classical and recent soft-computing association rule mining algorithms. Then, different objective and subjective rule evaluation measures are used to select the most interesting and useful rules. Experiments have been carried out by using real data of university students enrolled on an artificial intelligence practice Moodle's course on the CLIPS programming language. Some examples of these rules are shown, together with the feedback that they provide to instructors making decisions about how to improve quizzes and courses. Finally, starting with the information provided by the rules, the CLIPS quiz and course have been updated. These innovations have been evaluated by comparing the performance achieved by students before and after applying the changes using one control group and two different experimental groups.
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