This paper presents a comparative study of three Density based Clustering Algorithms that are DENCLUE, DBCLASD and DBSCAN. Six parameters are considered for their comparison. Result is supported by firm experimental evaluation. This analysis helps in finding the appropriate density based clustering algorithm in variant situations.
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Background: Readability metrics provide us with an objective and efficient way to assess the quality of educational texts. We can use the readability measures for finding assessment items that are difficult to read for a given grade level. Hard-to-read math word problems can put some students at a disadvantage if they are behind in their literacy learning. Despite their math abilities, these students can perform poorly on difficult-to-read word problems because of their poor reading skills. Less readable math tests can create equity issues for students who are relatively new to the language of assessment. Less readable test items can also affect the assessment's construct validity by partially measuring reading comprehension.Objectives: This study shows how large language models help us improve the readability of math assessment items.
Methods:We analysed 250 test items from grades 3 to 5 of EngageNY, an opensource curriculum. We used the GPT-3 AI system to simplify the text of these math word problems. We used text prompts and the few-shot learning method for the simplification task.Results and Conclusions: On average, GPT-3 AI produced output passages that showed improvements in readability metrics, but the outputs had a large amount of noise and were often unrelated to the input. We used thresholds over text similarity metrics and changes in readability measures to filter out the noise. We found meaningful simplifications that can be given to item authors as suggestions for improvement.Takeaways: GPT-3 AI is capable of simplifying hard-to-read math word problems.The model generates noisy simplifications using text prompts or few-shot learning methods. The noise can be filtered using text similarity and readability measures. The meaningful simplifications AI produces are sound but not ready to be used as a direct replacement for the original items. To improve test quality, simplifications can be suggested to item authors at the time of digital question authoring.
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