Information Measures of Knowledge Contribution: A New Method to Measure Knowledge Contribution in Collaborative Knowledge Building: An Information Theory Perspective
Chinese National Natural Science Fundation [61772012, 71974073]; Humanities and Social Science project of Chinese Ministry of Education [17YJA880104]; Open Fund of Hubei Research Center for Educational Informationization, Central China Normal University [HRCEI2020F0105]; E-learning research project by School of Educational Information Technology in Central China Normal University [CCNUSEIT202004]
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教育信息技术学院
摘要：
The measurement of knowledge contribution in collaborative knowledge building is an important research topic in computer-supported collaborative learning. The information measures of knowledge contribution based on information theory are proposed in this study, which includes two measures: amount of information and information gain. Discourse data collected from a collaborative knowledge building activity were analyzed to validate these measures. The results showed that our information measures can complement the traditional behavioral. With the help of the two measures, community-level variat...
