A Topic Model for Clustering Learners Based on Contents in Educational Counseling

摘要

For improving the quality of education, we need to analyze the interaction among the learners and teachers. For example, we empirically know that an agreement among the learner and teacher on the point of learning motivation makes good lecture. For this purpose, this paper aim to characterize the interactions based on the contents in the interactions. This paper employs a topic model for characterizing the interactions. Topic model is a method for estimating topic (theme or subject) in documents and clustering the documents based on estimated topics. By using topic model, this paper analyzes contents in actual educational counseling.