In this paper we propose the use of a special type of association rules mining for discovering interesting relationships from the students’ test data collected in our case with Moodle learning management system (LMS). Particularly, we apply Class Association Rule (CAR) mining to different data matrices such as the score-matrix, the relationship-matrix and the knowledge- matrix. These matrices are constructed based on the data relate to students’ performance in the test and on the domain knowledge provided by the instructor. We describe how to obtain these matrices and then we have applied a CAR mining algorithm.
1. Matrices created from test’s data. We have applied the Apriori-CAR mining algorithm over the previously described data matrices. In the first experiment, we have used the score-matrix, and we have selected/filtered as input-attributes (antecedent) only the item answers, and as class the final score. In this way, we can see the relationships between items and how they can predict/determine the final score obtained by students. In the second experiment, we have used the knowledge-matrix, and we have selected the knowledge of concepts as input- attributes (antecedent) and the final score as a class attribute. In this way, we can discover the relationships between concepts and between the level of knowledge of these concepts and the final score obtained by students. 3 Conclusions and Future Work. In this paper, we proposed to use a special type of association rules over the assessment data in a particular scenario. We mined different test data matrices rather than only the typical score-matrix. Particularly we used an item-concept relationship matrix created by the instructor and a student-concept knowledge level matrix automatically created based on the information from the other two matrices. Finally, it is important to notice that concepts themselves may need to be presented as a hierarchy rather than a 'flat' set of independent concepts. Mining interesting patterns in such settings is one of the directions of our further work.
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