2012 EmpoweringAuthorstoDiagnoseComp

• (Agrawal et al., 2012) ⇒ Rakesh Agrawal, Sunandan Chakraborty, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Anitha Kannan, and Krishnaram Kenthapadi. (2012). “Empowering Authors to Diagnose Comprehension Burden in Textbooks.” In: Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2012). ISBN:978-1-4503-1462-6 doi:10.1145/2339530.2339682

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• Comprehension burden; concepts; data mining; diagnostic tool for authors; education; information storage and retrieval; knowledge discovery; textbooks

Abstract

Good textbooks are organized in a systematically progressive fashion so that students acquire new knowledge and learn new concepts based on known items of information. We provide a diagnostic tool for quantitatively assessing the comprehension burden that a textbook imposes on the reader due to non-sequential presentation of concepts. We present a formal definition of comprehension burden and propose an algorithmic approach for computing it. We apply the tool to a corpus of high school textbooks from India and empirically examine its effectiveness in helping authors identify sections of textbooks that can benefit from reorganizing the material presented.

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
2012 EmpoweringAuthorstoDiagnoseComp	Anitha Kannan Sreenivas Gollapudi Sunandan Chakraborty Krishnaram Kenthapadi Rakesh Agrawal			Empowering Authors to Diagnose Comprehension Burden in Textbooks				10.1145/2339530.2339682		2012