Application of Topic Modeling for Analysis of Feedback by Students in International Design Project
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| author | Rodriguez, J. Esparragoza, I. E. |
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| contents | Open-ended questions are a common option to collect feedback from students after they have participated or performed an assignment. There are benefits and issues with this type of assessment, but certainly there is value in their utilization. The expectation is to get feedback that will provide information that serves to define specific interventions in order to improve the offering of the task being assessed. With the goal of having more objective information being extracted from the students' feedback, Topic Modeling has been applied to the data collected. Topic modelling is a data analytics approach that results in the identification of topics or themes in the textual datasets provided as responses to open-ended questions. The approach is an iterative algorithm that utilizes frequencies and probabilities in the dataset to extract the requested number of topics. This approach was applied to the responses provided by students participating in a multinational engineering design project collaboration, where basic like-dislike-suggestion questions were given at the end of their participation. The collaboration was done over the course of several weeks with engineering students from different countries in the Americas and Italy. Demographic data was as well collected from the students, and the application of topic modelling approach is segmented based, mainly, on geographic location. Preliminary results from the analyses indicate that there are some specific topics being identified, particularly on the dislike side, which can be considered as expected challenges when multinational teams work on a given task. Such results will be considered to define interventions in future offerings of this collaborative project. |
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| spellingShingle | Application of Topic Modeling for Analysis of Feedback by Students in International Design Project Rodriguez, J. Esparragoza, I. E. Topic modeling open-ended survey student feedback multinational collaboration Open-ended questions are a common option to collect feedback from students after they have participated or performed an assignment. There are benefits and issues with this type of assessment, but certainly there is value in their utilization. The expectation is to get feedback that will provide information that serves to define specific interventions in order to improve the offering of the task being assessed. With the goal of having more objective information being extracted from the students' feedback, Topic Modeling has been applied to the data collected. Topic modelling is a data analytics approach that results in the identification of topics or themes in the textual datasets provided as responses to open-ended questions. The approach is an iterative algorithm that utilizes frequencies and probabilities in the dataset to extract the requested number of topics. This approach was applied to the responses provided by students participating in a multinational engineering design project collaboration, where basic like-dislike-suggestion questions were given at the end of their participation. The collaboration was done over the course of several weeks with engineering students from different countries in the Americas and Italy. Demographic data was as well collected from the students, and the application of topic modelling approach is segmented based, mainly, on geographic location. Preliminary results from the analyses indicate that there are some specific topics being identified, particularly on the dislike side, which can be considered as expected challenges when multinational teams work on a given task. Such results will be considered to define interventions in future offerings of this collaborative project. |
| title | Application of Topic Modeling for Analysis of Feedback by Students in International Design Project |
| topic | Topic modeling open-ended survey student feedback multinational collaboration |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14672823 |