Development of a relevance index for the subjects in a study plan - Case study: Systems and Computer Engineering, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira


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https://doi.org/10.22517/23447214.24454

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Educational Data mining

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This document presents the development of an index that aims to quantify, according to some criteria known in graph theory, how relevant a subject is, taking into account its location in the curriculum, its number of credits, its prerequisites and the subjects dependents. The first thing was to model the academic plan using a graph, which considers only two things: the assigned credits and the prerequisites that must be met before taking the subjects. After having this model, graph theory algorithms were applied that allow to measure the importance of a subject with respect to the location in its curricular mesh (Centrality) and allow to give a measure of the importance of the subjects based on academic credits, its prerequisites and subjects depending on it (Neighborhood). It is important to note that the analysis presented is not intended to indicate that one subject is more important than another for the student's professional development, but rather to analyze, in an estimative way, which subjects contribute more to the connectivity of the program and academic flow by this network only taking into account the information found in the curriculum.The result obtained is a composite index, which allows visualizing the relevance degree of the subjects in the study plan.

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2020-09-30

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Guerrero-Erazo, J. G., Grandas -Aguirre, G. S., & Castaño-Gómez, J. D. (2020). Development of a relevance index for the subjects in a study plan - Case study: Systems and Computer Engineering, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira. Scientia Et Technica, 25(3), 455–460. https://doi.org/10.22517/23447214.24454

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Vol. 25 No. 3 (2020)

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Sistemas y Computación

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