Professor Tan Kar Way: Do My Students Understand? Automated Identification of Doubts from Informal Reflections

Traditionally, teaching is one directional where the instructor imparts knowledge with minimal interactions with learners. In a learner-centered pedagogy, we hope to provide timely and relevant guidance to individual learners according to their levels of understanding. In this presentation, we show how we automatically identify doubts from students’ informal reflections using text analytics, so doubts or questions can be addressed in a timely manner.