Practical Text Mining and Statistical Analysis for Non-structured Text Data Applications

Tutorial F

Using eBay Text for Predicting ATLAS Instrumental Learning

Anne Ashby Ghost Bear, EdD,     Director, Southern Nazarene University, Tulsa, Tulsa, OK

Linda A. Miner, PhD,     Director of Academic Programs, Southern Nazarene University, Tulsa, OK

Contents

Introduction

Examining the Data by Types

Summary

Reference

Introduction

The Assessing the Learning Strategies of Adults (ATLAS) instrument was developed for measuring learning strategy preferences in real-life situations. It was created to afford facilitators of adult learning events an easily administered method for discovering the learning strategy preferences of participants in a variety of settings (Conti and Kolody, 1999). Data related to ATLAS were gathered by embedding the instrument ...