An Application of Structural Equation Modeling for Developing Good Teaching Characteristics Ontology
Ontology is a knowledge representation technique which aims to make knowledge explicit by defining the core concepts and their relationships. The Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is a statistical technique which aims to explore the core factors from empirical data and estimates the relationship be...
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| description | Ontology is a knowledge representation technique which aims to make knowledge explicit by defining the core concepts and their relationships. The Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is a statistical technique which aims to explore the core factors from empirical data and estimates the relationship between these factors. This article presents an application of Structural Equation Modeling to construct a lightweight ontology of good teaching characteristics. The principal factors from SEM are used as concepts of the proposed ontology. The OAsys approach is used as an ontology development process. The proposed ontology consists of three levels: super-class level consists of 6 components of teaching; the first-level sub-class consists of 12 latent factors from SEM; and the second-level sub-class consists of 66 classes of questionnaire items. The experimental result indicated that the proposed ontology which constructs from the core factors of SEM is well-structured, free from a node with multiple parent classes. There is no cycles loop between sub-classes. Having well-balanced of ratio between parent classes and sub-classes. The structure of this proposed ontology corresponds to the principle of conceptual balance. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c8bb3270b27c4b5cb6a84b4074b7cb9a2022-12-22T04:30:43ZengVilnius UniversityInformatics in Education1648-58312335-89712013-04-0112225327210.15388/infedu.2013.17An Application of Structural Equation Modeling for Developing Good Teaching Characteristics OntologySomjin PHIAKOKSONG0Suphakit NIWATTANAKUL1Thara ANGSKUN2School of Information Technology, Institute of Social Technology, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, ThailandSchool of Information Technology, Institute of Social Technology, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, ThailandSchool of Information Technology, Institute of Social Technology, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, ThailandOntology is a knowledge representation technique which aims to make knowledge explicit by defining the core concepts and their relationships. The Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is a statistical technique which aims to explore the core factors from empirical data and estimates the relationship between these factors. This article presents an application of Structural Equation Modeling to construct a lightweight ontology of good teaching characteristics. The principal factors from SEM are used as concepts of the proposed ontology. The OAsys approach is used as an ontology development process. The proposed ontology consists of three levels: super-class level consists of 6 components of teaching; the first-level sub-class consists of 12 latent factors from SEM; and the second-level sub-class consists of 66 classes of questionnaire items. The experimental result indicated that the proposed ontology which constructs from the core factors of SEM is well-structured, free from a node with multiple parent classes. There is no cycles loop between sub-classes. Having well-balanced of ratio between parent classes and sub-classes. The structure of this proposed ontology corresponds to the principle of conceptual balance.https://infedu.vu.lt/doi/10.15388/infedu.2013.17structural equation modellinggood teaching characteristicsontology development processlightweight ontology |
| spellingShingle | Somjin PHIAKOKSONG Suphakit NIWATTANAKUL Thara ANGSKUN An Application of Structural Equation Modeling for Developing Good Teaching Characteristics Ontology Informatics in Education structural equation modelling good teaching characteristics ontology development process lightweight ontology |
| title | An Application of Structural Equation Modeling for Developing Good Teaching Characteristics Ontology |
| title_full | An Application of Structural Equation Modeling for Developing Good Teaching Characteristics Ontology |
| title_fullStr | An Application of Structural Equation Modeling for Developing Good Teaching Characteristics Ontology |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Application of Structural Equation Modeling for Developing Good Teaching Characteristics Ontology |
| title_short | An Application of Structural Equation Modeling for Developing Good Teaching Characteristics Ontology |
| title_sort | application of structural equation modeling for developing good teaching characteristics ontology |
| topic | structural equation modelling good teaching characteristics ontology development process lightweight ontology |
| url | https://infedu.vu.lt/doi/10.15388/infedu.2013.17 |
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