Table 8 Sample comments from the dataset and the predictions by the tool as suggestions (Yes) or not (No). Bolded are incorrectly predicted comments
From: Text analytics approach to extract course improvement suggestions from students’ feedback
Comments (sentence tokenized) | Actual | Predicted |
|---|---|---|
“Prof could have given more leeway to teams seeking to enhance automation for clients.” | Yes | Yes |
“We should have more practices in class to allow us to learn more stuff.” | Yes | Yes |
“Lessons can be more engaging, by asking the students questions or trying out models.” | Yes | Yes |
“Course could have spent more time on app logger and less time on the rest of the stuff.” | Yes | Yes |
“He tries to make the lessons as structured as he can.” | No | Yes |
“Prior to this course, I never knew that Excel could be used to analyse or project future sales.” | No | Yes |
“Probably organize lab sessions once a week for students to clear their doubts when they are using excel.” | Yes | No |
“Spends more time going through the examples as some students take more time to understand.” | No | No |