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Table 3 ML Techniques used in TA

From: Teaching analytics, value and tools for teacher data literacy: a systematic and tripartite approach

ML Techniques

Examples

Source

Classification

Time-Series Classification Analysis, Supervised Binary Classification, AdaBoot Ensemble Classifier, Random Forests, Support Vector Machine (SVM), Generalised Boosted Models (GBM), Logistic Regression and Multinomial Logistic Regression.

(Barmaki and Hughes 2015; Prieto et al. 2018; Prieto et al. 2016; Suehiro et al. 2017; Thomas 2018; Xu and Recker 2012)

Clustering

Latent Class Analysis (LCA).

(Xu and Recker 2012)

NLP

TFIDF, Co-occurrence Analysis, Point-wise Mutual Information, Non-negative Matrix Factorisation Topic Modelling Technique, Jaccard Similarity Co-efficient, Semantic Analysis.

(Müller et al. 2016; Taniguchi et al. 2017; Sergis and Sampson 2016)

Deep Learning

Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), Convolutional Neural Network (CNN).

(Prieto et al. 2018)