Determining curricular coverage of student contributions to an online discourse environment: Using latent semantic analysis to construct differential term clouds

Authors

C. Teplovs
Nobuko Fujita, University of WindsorFollow

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

2009

Publication Title

Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Practices

First Page

165

Abstract

This paper presents a new approach to mapping student contributions to curriculum guidelines through the use of Latent Semantic Analysis and information visualization techniques. A new information visualization technique - differential term clouds - is introduced as a means to make clear changes in semantic fields over time.

Last Page

167

Comments

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