Automatic Generation of Teachers’ Course Preferences Using Document Clustering

Amna  Shoukat; Malik Tahir Hassan; Hira  Asim

doi:10.32350/jarms/2020/0101/903

Amna Shoukat University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
Malik Tahir Hassan University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
Hira Asim University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32350/jarms/2020/0101/903

Keywords: course allocation, data mining, document clustering, higher education, teaching quality, teaching management

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The current study examined the automated course preferences of teachers using document clustering. Data regarding teachers’ course preferences and course outlines were collected and preprocessed for further analysis. Two separate clustering solutions were generated for teachers and courses datasets. The clustering solution for teachers contained clusters of similar faculty members grouped together on the basis of their course preferences and courses taught by them in previous years. The clustering solution generated for courses contained the list of course outlines of assigned courses. Good quality clusters for both teachers and courses were generated using K-means clustering method in CLUTO software package. The generated clustering solutions were mapped for automated generation of course preferences for each teacher in the dataset. Precision, Recall and F-measure values were also reported and they indicated promising results.

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