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Re: Origin stories

by Christopher Teplovs -
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Baker & Yacef say:

It has been proposed that educational data mining methods are often different from standard data mining methods, due to the need to explicitly account for (and the opportunities to exploit) the multi-level hierarchy and non-independence in educational data [Baker in press].


which I agree is confusing. So I searched for the forward reference (Baker, in press) and found the following:


Educational data mining methods often differ from methods from the broader data mining
literature, in explicitly exploiting the multiple levels of meaningful hierarchy in educational data.
Methods from the psychometrics literature are often integrated with methods from the machine
learning and data mining literatures to achieve this goal.


For example, in mining data about how students choose to use educational software, it may be
worthwhile to simultaneously consider data at the keystroke level, answer level, session level,
student level, classroom level, and school level. Issues of time, sequence, and context also play
important roles in the study of educational data.


(via a preprint of his chapter)

Ah, the joys of sorting out semantics in a multi-disciplinary field ;)