A feasibility study on using clustering algorithms in programming education research

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marzieh Ahmadzadeh ◽  
Elham Mahmoudabadi
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Feasibility Study ◽  
Clustering Algorithms ◽  
Programming Education

Using Health Forum Data to Assess User Needs for mHealth App Development: A Feasibility Study on Alzheimer’s Disease (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danny T.Y. Wu ◽  
Shwetha Bindhu ◽  
Hoang Vu ◽  
Shuai Mu ◽  
Catherine Xu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Feasibility Study ◽  
Clustering Algorithm ◽  
Clustering Algorithms ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
User Needs ◽  
External Evaluation ◽  
App Development ◽  
Caregiver Needs

BACKGROUND User needs assessments have become increasingly essential in the development of mobile health technology but may be hindered by time and resource restraints. Analyzing online health forum data may provide a substitute for in-person assessments and could provide the data necessary to inform mobile-based application development. OBJECTIVE : A feasibility study was conducted to determine whether forum posts on Alzheimer's disease could 1) help identify patient and caregiver needs to inform application design and 2) determine whether these needs can be identified automatically by classic text clustering methods. METHODS Posts on an Alzheimer's disease forum were collected and subsequently analyzed through a manual thematic coding process and used to generate user personas. The personas were compared and contrasted with personas collected through in-person interviews. Concurrently, the posts were clustered using hierarchical clustering algorithms. An external evaluation was conducted to compare the automatic and manual clusters. RESULTS A total of 413 forum posts were collected. The thematic coding process yielded three themes and nine subthemes with a high level of agreement between coders. The themes helped inform four distinct user personas. The external evaluation showed fair to substantial scores for the similarity between the automatic and manual labels. CONCLUSIONS Forum posts can be useful in understanding patients and caregiver needs. The personas based on the forum posts can provide a broader view of user needs, while the personas generated from the in-person interviews support developing a deeper understanding of user needs. Automated clustering algorithms achieved a fair performance in clustering the forum posts to match the manually derived themes. More research is needed to improve the clustering algorithm performance to facilitate user needs assessment in mobile app development. CLINICALTRIAL N/A

Thriving in Academia: Understanding and Managing the Complexities of Faculty Work

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ketevan Mamiseishvili
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Work Setting ◽  
Higher Education Research ◽  
Faculty Work ◽  
College And University ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
University Settings

In this paper, I will illustrate the changing nature and complexity of faculty employment in college and university settings. I will use existing higher education research to describe changes in faculty demographics, the escalating demands placed on faculty in the work setting, and challenges that confront professors seeking tenure or administrative advancement. Boyer’s (1990) framework for bringing traditionally marginalized and neglected functions of teaching, service, and community engagement into scholarship is examined as a model for balancing not only teaching, research, and service, but also work with everyday life.

Summarizing Special Education Research

2003 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-250
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Scruggs ◽  
Margo A. Mastropieri
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Education Research
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