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Vol.12, No.1, February 2023. ISSN: 2217-8309 eISSN: 2217-8333
TEM Journal
TECHNOLOGY, EDUCATION, MANAGEMENT, INFORMATICS Association for Information Communication Technology Education and Science |
ANOVA as Fitness Function for Genetic Algorithm in Group Composition
Anon Sukstrienwong
© 2023 Anon Sukstrienwong , published by UIKTEN. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License. (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Citation Information: TEM Journal. Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages 396-405, ISSN 2217-8309, DOI: 10.18421/TEM121-49, February 2023.
Received: : 10 October 2022. Revised: 25 December 2022.
Abstract:
Establishing suitable groups of students is one of the factors considered as a key to success in group collaboration. In addition, searching for the optimal solution of the problem can be more complicated and becomes an exhaustive search, while taking into consideration the equality of the group homogeneity. However, a few approaches focus on forming groups of students based on the analysis of variance (ANOVA) to ensure that all generated groups have been drawn from a similar population. Hence, the main purpose of this research is to propose a heuristic search algorithm based on genetic algorithm (GA) referred as to ‘Genetic Algorithm with ANOVA’ (GANOVA) to search for best possible groupings of students in terms of educational learning styles. Furthermore, the empirical case studies demonstrate that the proposed algorithm successfully searches for forming the optimal groups of students, where the F-test value of equality of variances is near zero.
Keywords –ANOVA, genetic algorithm, group composition, homogeneous grouping, optimization, Student learning styles. |
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