Contextualised Student Modelling for Enculturated Systems.
Phaedra S. Mohammed, Permanand Mohan · 2013
Abstract. Contextual student modeling, also called cultural profiling or cultural modeling, refers to the process of building a computational representation of the cultural identity and background of a student. Previous works have been done that identify and use certain environmental dimensions for such a model. In this paper, a new approach is proposed that uses additional dimensions, and incorporates combinations of dimension clusters to represent and quantify a students expression of socio-cultural group traits and preferences. The viability of this approach is demonstrated through the use of a prototype that collects dimension data and generates estimates of a students association with particu-lar socio-cultural groups in five categories. An evaluation of the prototype re-vealed that estimates were rated as reasonable and acceptable by students and confirms that the approach extends current efforts in the field of culturally-aware tutoring systems for modeling students cultural context.