Measuring sports teaching activities in higher education through natural language processing

Minzi Li; Liu Han; Siyu Ma

doi:10.1117/12.2672188

28 March 2023 Measuring sports teaching activities in higher education through natural language processing

Minzi Li, Liu Han, Siyu Ma

Proceedings Volume 12597, Second International Conference on Statistics, Applied Mathematics, and Computing Science (CSAMCS 2022); 125971Q (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2672188
Event: Second International Conference on Statistics, Applied Mathematics, and Computing Science (CSAMCS 2022), 2022, Nanjing, China

Abstract

The evaluation of teaching activities plays an integral part in measuring teachers’ abilities and improving teaching qualities. Among of which, Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) serves as the key approach to assessing teaching activities. In the field of sports teaching in China, SET has been implemented nationwide, however, very few studies have touched upon the aspect of measuring sports teaching activities in higher education from the perspective of SET. Among rare studies, attention has been mainly directed to aspects of structured data (e.g., rating scales), which are easy to quantify, rather than descriptive evaluation comments/reviews that came from students (e.g., texts). Natural Language Processing (NLP) is deemed as an effective tool to deal with unstructured data and may explore more valuable diagnostic information through a multidimensional view (i.e., data mining), thus improving sports teaching and promoting learning in the long run. This research collected SET data from several universities. The NLP approach and Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic model were used to analyze the SET corpora for feature extraction. The results were then used to identify traits that may be considered for measuring sports teaching activities. Besides, a user dictionary was constructed through thematic coding and was then further applied to investigate the emotional polarity and subjectivity of SET.

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Minzi Li, Liu Han, and Siyu Ma "Measuring sports teaching activities in higher education through natural language processing", Proc. SPIE 12597, Second International Conference on Statistics, Applied Mathematics, and Computing Science (CSAMCS 2022), 125971Q (28 March 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2672188

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