Share Paper: Evaluating the coverage of syllabus terminology in student's dissertations.

1. Erick Velazquez-Godinez, Institut für Romanistik, Universität Potsdam, Germany
2. Sylvie Ratté, Software Engineering and IT department, École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada
3. Frank de Jong, Educational faculty, Aeres Hogeschool Wageningen, Netherlands

Abstract: In formal education systems, teachers often oversee numerous students, which can seriously complicate the task of monitoring each student’s comprehension of lessons. Learning analytics (LA) offers teachers a support medium for this monitoring. Since each individual student has his own way of explaining a concept, effective semantic analysis is imperative to link such explanations to a single concept. Our proposed method evaluates the coverage of syllabus terminology in student’s written dissertations by implementing linguistic and cognitive knowledge. We use an asymmetric coverage measure to determine how the concepts are covered in students’ dissertations. Our approach detected weaker dissertations by indicating ...