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Collaborative learning has grown more popular as a form of instruction in recent decades, with a significant number of studies demonstrating its benefits from many perspectives of theory and methodology. However, it has also been demonstrated that effective collaborative learning does not occur spontaneously without orchestrating collaborative learning groups according to the provision of favourable group criteria. Researchers have investigated different foundations and strategies to form such groups. However, the group criteria semantic information, which is essential for classifying groups, has not been explored. To capture the group criteria semantic information, we propose a novel Natural Language Processing (NLP) approach, namely using pre-trained word embedding. Through our approach, we could automatically form homogeneous and heterogeneous collaborative learning groups based on student’s knowledge levels expressed in assessments. Experiments utilising a dataset from a university programming course are used to assess the performance of the proposed approach.
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Wu, Y., Nouri, J., Li, X., Weegar, R., Afzaal, M., Zia, A. (2021). Catching Group Criteria Semantic Information When Forming Collaborative Learning Groups. In: De Laet, T., Klemke, R., Alario-Hoyos, C., Hilliger, I., Ortega-Arranz, A. (eds) Technology-Enhanced Learning for a Free, Safe, and Sustainable World. EC-TEL 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12884. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86436-1_2
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