Towards Course Prerequisites Refinement

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Authors	BAYER Jaroslav BYDŽOVSKÁ Hana GÉRYK Jan
Year of publication	2012
Type	Article in Proceedings
Conference	Sborník příspěvků 12. ročníku doktorandské konference - IMEA 2012
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Informatics
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Field	Informatics
Keywords	Course Prerequisites; Student Enrolment; Educational Data Mining; Distance Function
Description	This preliminary work towards course prerequisites refinement focuses on detecting relations between courses using a novel method for quantifying the dependency ratio of courses. This method is based on the historical data on student enrolments in courses. We describe the extraction of data from Excalibur data warehouse. This data contain interim results of students conducted to study at Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University. This method facilitates to improve the success rate of difficult courses by refining the course prerequisites. We confront the results with the background knowledge.
Related projects:	Czech Republic membership in the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics