ALLS demos and presents the EDM Workbench at the 5th International Conference on Educational Data Mining

Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo presented the paper entitled “Development of a workbench to address the educational data mining bottleneck” at the 5th International Conference on Educational Data Mining held in Chania, Greece. The conference also allowed Dr. Rodrigo the opportunity to demonstrate the workbench’s functions.

Funded under the Department of Science and Technology’s Engineering Research and Development for Technology Program, the EDM workbench is a collaboration between the Ateneo de Manila, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Carnegie Mellon University.

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ALLS Presents Two Posters at the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems

On behalf of principal authors Thea Faye Guia and Jose Carlo Soriano, Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo presented ALLS posters entitled “Modeling the affective states of students using SQL-Tutor” and “A cross-cultural comparison of effective help-seeking behavior among students using an ITS for math” during the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems held in Chania, Greece. Ms. Guia’s paper was a collaboration between the Ateneo de Manila and Dr. Antonja Mitrovic of the University of Canterbury. The authors were able to arrive at a statistically significant linear regression model for student boredom.

Mr. Soriano’s paper was a collaboration among researchers from the Ateneo de Manila, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Arizona State University, and the Universidad de Costa Rica. The authors found that help seeking behavior varied from country to country. Models for help seeking from one country performed poorly when applied to data from another country. This implied that help seeking has a strong cultural dimension.

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Zachary T. Chung

 
I am Zachary T. Chung, an undergraduate student and my major is BS Computer Science with AB minor in Japanese Studies. My field of interest is Japanese language pedagogy and linguistics, applied to instructional systems design. I currently teach Japanese on the side at a student organization in the Ateneo, Hinomoto.

 

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An Intelligent Tutoring System for Japanese Language Particles with User Assessment and Feedback

Thesis Abstract: In recent years, an increasing number of Ateneo students are taking an interest in the Japanese language. For Ateneo students beginning their study of the language however, Japanese particles are difficult concepts because they cannot be translated to equivalent words in English. For a beginner learner, it is inevitable to view a second language with the lens of a first language as shown by the concept of transfer in second language acquisition. As a result, learners tend to misconstrue Japanese particles by attempting to understand them with respect to non-existent equivalents in English.

In this research, we would like to develop an intelligent tutoring system for Ateneo students taking introductory Japanese (FLC 1JSP) to aid them better understand Japanese particles. The system would assess the learner’s understanding of Japanese particles by practice and depending on which particle where most mistakes are made, the system would give instructional feedback. Feedback to be implemented in the system use visual prototypes that represent the meaning of the particle. We hope to see if visual representations better teach Japanese particles to students as opposed to text-detailed explanations such as those commonly found in textbooks.

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Zachary T. Chung

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Program: Educational Data Mining Workshop with Dr. Joseph E. Beck

Educational Data Mining Workshop with Dr. Joseph E. Beck

28 May 2012, 09:00-17:00
29 May 2012, 09:00-12:00

Ching Tan Room, Ateneo de Manila University

Presentations

  1. Thrashing: Examining Students who Fail to Learn Material in a Timely Manner [PDF]
  2. ASSISTments + Web Pages = WEBsistments: Integrating Procedural Practice and Web-based Content [PDF]
  3. EdRank: Ranking Webpages by Their Educational Efficacy [PDF]
  4. VAL: Virtual ASSISTments Laboratory [PDF]
  5. Too Many Results: Focusing on  Strong, Casual Relationships in Data [PDF]
  6. Graduate Studies in the US and at WPI [PDF]

Pictures

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