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Ontology Development for Competence Assessment in Virtual Communities of Practice

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Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2018)

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This paper presents an ontological model for defining competency paths in STEM education, designed for the implementation of an adaptive system integrated in virtual communities. The model is applied for clustering materials for automatic assessment and the results are discussed.

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Correspondence to Alice Barana , Luigi Di Caro , Michele Fioravera , Marina Marchisio or Sergio Rabellino .

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Barana, A., Di Caro, L., Fioravera, M., Marchisio, M., Rabellino, S. (2018). Ontology Development for Competence Assessment in Virtual Communities of Practice. In: Penstein Rosé, C., et al. Artificial Intelligence in Education. AIED 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10948. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93846-2_18

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