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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2014
Filed:
May. 13, 2011
Sharath Srinivas, Webster, NY (US);
Eric Scott Hamby, Webster, NY (US);
Robert M. Lofthus, Webster, NY (US);
Sharath Srinivas, Webster, NY (US);
Eric Scott Hamby, Webster, NY (US);
Robert M. Lofthus, Webster, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems of clustering a plurality of students are disclosed. A computing device may receive assessment data for each of a plurality of students. The assessment data includes information pertaining to each of a plurality of questions in an assessment. The computing device may also receive a number of clusters into which to organize the plurality of students. The computing device may determine a similarity value between each pair of students in the plurality of students based on the assessment data associated with each student. The computing device may organize the plurality of students into the number of clusters based on the similarity values.