Empowering Authors to Diagnose Comprehension Burden in Textbooks

Empowering Authors to Diagnose Comprehension Burden in Textbooks, Agrawal, R., Chakraborty, S., Gollapudi, S., Kannan, A., & Kenthapadi, K. (2012, August). In Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining, 967-975. ACM.

Good textbooks are organized in a systematically progressive fashion so that students acquire new knowledge and learn new concepts based on known items of information. We provide a diagnostic tool for quantitatively assessing the comprehension burden that a textbook imposes on the reader due to non-sequential presentation of concepts…

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