Analysis of learning objectives for higher education textbooks using text mining

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the learning objectives of the higher education textbooks, according to verbs of intended learning outcomes which were set by the Quality Management of Institute of Statistical Studies and Research (ISSR), Cairo University, Egypt. This study provides a set of recommendations that will help to choose the best chapters of a textbook which is investigating the largest amount of targeted intended learning outcomes that helps explore the key performance indicators for organizations. A dataset of learning objectives for each chapter and intended learning outcomes has been collected. Each learning objective from chapters and the Intended learning outcomes were processed through the removal of punctuation and stop words, tokenization, stemming and term weighting.