Determining curricular coverage of student contributions to an online discourse environment through the use of latent semantic analysis and term clouds
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This paper presents a new approach to mapping student contributions to curriculum guidelines through the use of Latent Semantic Analysis and information visualization techniques. A new information visualization technique – differential term clouds – is introduced as a means to make clear changes in semantic fields over time.
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