A method for supporting heterogeneous-group formation through heuristics and visualization
Entity
UAM. Departamento de Ingeniería InformáticaPublisher
J.UCSDate
2010Citation
10.3217/jucs-016-19-2882
Journal of Universal Computer Science, 16.19 (2010), 2882-2901
ISSN
0948-695X (print); 0948-6968 (online)DOI
10.3217/jucs-016-19-2882Funded by
This project has been funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education (TIN2007-64718) and Comunidad Autonoma de Madrid (S2009/TIC-1650).Project
Comunidad de Madrid. S2009/TIC-1650/E-MADRIDEditor's Version
http://www.jucs.org/doi?doi=10.3217/jucs-016-19-2882Subjects
Authoring Tool; Collaborative Work; Group Formation; Learning Styles; InformáticaRights
© J.UCSAbstract
Group formation is a key issue in e-learning environments that make use of
collaborative work to enhance student performance. While there are many ways to arrange
students to work in cooperative groups, recent works have shown that learning styles offer good
opportunities to organize students. Particularly, it seems the case that regarding learning styles,
heterogeneous groups tend to perform better than groups formed by students with similar
characteristics. This work addresses the issue of supporting the authors’ task of forming
effective learner groups to improve student and group performance. This support is provided
through a supervised method which, backed by a visualization tool, is able to produce groups
with a good level of heterogeneity. Moreover, this method is not time-consuming for teachers.
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Google Scholar:Paredes Barragán, Pedro
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Ortigosa Juárez, Álvaro Manuel
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Rodríguez Marín, Pilar
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