Recommended course sets satisfy significantly more soft skill targets than the courses students actually took¶
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q2 i? The average difference in the number of soft skill targets satisfied between recommendations and actual courses is positive at all times, ranging from 1.81 to 3.76 in the compensatory condition, and is statistically significant for all cases (paired t-tests, p < 0.001). → Luis Alberto Pinos Ullauri 2025
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Luis Alberto Pinos Ullauri 2025¶
Luis Alberto Pinos Ullauri, Alexis Lebis, Abir Karami, Mathieu Vermeulen, Anthony Fleury, Wim Van den Noortgate. (2025). A Recommender System of Postgraduate Courses Based on Soft Skills: A Psychometric-inspired Approach. Int J Artif Intell Educ 35. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-025-00463-z
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Results analysis of satisfied-target differences in Table 7, tested with paired t-tests (***p < 0.001 noted in the table). The article states "the recommendations helped satisfy more targets than the actual courses the students took". The difference measures whether targets were reached, not by how much.
"This difference ranges from 1.81 up until 3.76 in Compensatory and is also statistically significant for all cases. This means that, on average, the recommendations helped satisfy more targets than the actual courses the students took."
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Related Claims¶
- Across all score functions and aggregation types, recommended course sets have on average higher fitness than the courses students actually took — related
- Brute-force search over all possible course sets is computationally infeasible for specialisations with large course catalogues — related
- Knowledge decay can be compensated with a thoughtful sequence of courses — related
- Fitness increases vary across the 10 soft skills, with some skills showing small negative increases under compensatory aggregation — related
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Recommended course sets satisfy significantly more soft skill targets than the courses students actually took |
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Recommended course sets satisfy significantly more soft skill targets than the courses students actually took |
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