Looking for Peer Circles: Graph-Mining-Based Educational Assessment and Refinement Toward Physical Instructors
Exploring the identification of peer circles (or communities) with shared attributes in educational settings provides valuable insights for categorizing instructors’ teaching styles and methodologies. This paper introduces a framework for organizing a large number of physical education in...
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| description | Exploring the identification of peer circles (or communities) with shared attributes in educational settings provides valuable insights for categorizing instructors’ teaching styles and methodologies. This paper introduces a framework for organizing a large number of physical education instructors into distinct “circles” or clusters based on similar instructional traits and practices. It addresses two main challenges: 1) creating a flexible framework that adapts to diverse instructional characteristics across various educational environments, and 2) handling data insufficiency, as some instructors have limited documented teaching activities. To overcome these challenges, we propose a geometry-based feature selection technique to identify high-quality features that best represent each instructor’s teaching style. An advanced probabilistic model is then applied to represent each instructor’s attributes as a distribution in the latent space. This approach enables the creation of a graph capturing instructional similarities among instructors. By applying an optimized algorithm to detect densely connected subgraphs, we group instructors into circles with shared instructional features. Using these peer circles, we develop a scoring system to evaluate teaching performance. Our experiments, conducted on a dataset of numerous physical education instructors, demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach in identifying distinct teaching styles. Additionally, the framework enhances the assessment and improvement of instructional methods. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-1f2de45cda234248b23e60cc8ef859f92025-01-29T00:01:16ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362025-01-0113162381625110.1109/ACCESS.2025.353274610849651Looking for Peer Circles: Graph-Mining-Based Educational Assessment and Refinement Toward Physical InstructorsYuhe Zhu0https://orcid.org/0009-0000-2824-1322Physical Education and Health Institute, Heze University, Heze, ChinaExploring the identification of peer circles (or communities) with shared attributes in educational settings provides valuable insights for categorizing instructors’ teaching styles and methodologies. This paper introduces a framework for organizing a large number of physical education instructors into distinct “circles” or clusters based on similar instructional traits and practices. It addresses two main challenges: 1) creating a flexible framework that adapts to diverse instructional characteristics across various educational environments, and 2) handling data insufficiency, as some instructors have limited documented teaching activities. To overcome these challenges, we propose a geometry-based feature selection technique to identify high-quality features that best represent each instructor’s teaching style. An advanced probabilistic model is then applied to represent each instructor’s attributes as a distribution in the latent space. This approach enables the creation of a graph capturing instructional similarities among instructors. By applying an optimized algorithm to detect densely connected subgraphs, we group instructors into circles with shared instructional features. Using these peer circles, we develop a scoring system to evaluate teaching performance. Our experiments, conducted on a dataset of numerous physical education instructors, demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach in identifying distinct teaching styles. Additionally, the framework enhances the assessment and improvement of instructional methods.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10849651/Peer circlesdata miningphysical instructorstopic modeleducational evaluation |
| spellingShingle | Yuhe Zhu Looking for Peer Circles: Graph-Mining-Based Educational Assessment and Refinement Toward Physical Instructors IEEE Access Peer circles data mining physical instructors topic model educational evaluation |
| title | Looking for Peer Circles: Graph-Mining-Based Educational Assessment and Refinement Toward Physical Instructors |
| title_full | Looking for Peer Circles: Graph-Mining-Based Educational Assessment and Refinement Toward Physical Instructors |
| title_fullStr | Looking for Peer Circles: Graph-Mining-Based Educational Assessment and Refinement Toward Physical Instructors |
| title_full_unstemmed | Looking for Peer Circles: Graph-Mining-Based Educational Assessment and Refinement Toward Physical Instructors |
| title_short | Looking for Peer Circles: Graph-Mining-Based Educational Assessment and Refinement Toward Physical Instructors |
| title_sort | looking for peer circles graph mining based educational assessment and refinement toward physical instructors |
| topic | Peer circles data mining physical instructors topic model educational evaluation |
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