Prerequisite Relations among Knowledge Units:A Case Study of Computer Science Domain  

作　　者：Fatema Nafa Amal Babour Austin Melton 

机构地区：[1]Department of Computer Science,Salem State University,Salem,MA 01970,USA [2]Information Systems Department,Faculty of Computing and Information Technology,King Abdulaziz University,Jeddah,21589,Saudi Arabia [3]Department of Computer Science,Kent State University,Kent,OH 44240,USA

出　　处：《Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences》2022年第12期639-652,共14页工程与科学中的计算机建模（英文）

摘　　要：The importance of prerequisites for education has recently become a promising research direction.This work proposes a statistical model for measuring dependencies in learning resources between knowledge units.Instructors are expected to present knowledge units in a semantically well-organized manner to facilitate students’understanding of the material.The proposed model reveals how inner concepts of a knowledge unit are dependent on each other and on concepts not in the knowledge unit.To help understand the complexity of the inner concepts themselves,WordNet is included as an external knowledge base in thismodel.The goal is to develop a model that will enable instructors to evaluate whether or not a learning regime has hidden relationships which might hinder students’ability to understand the material.The evaluation,employing three textbooks,shows that the proposed model succeeds in discovering hidden relationships among knowledge units in learning resources and in exposing the knowledge gaps in some knowledge units.

关 键 词：Knowledge graph text mining knowledge unit graph mining 

分 类 号：G63[文化科学—教育学]