Group Formation Using Shortest Path Approach

Group work is becoming more important in education. Working in groups give students the ability to share ideas, to enhance problem solving skills and to improve communication skills. Thus, group formation becomes a crucial issue in order to increase group capability. However in UUM, several college...

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Main Author: Khongkaew, Onchaya
Format: Thesis
Language:English
English
Published: 2005
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Online Access:http://etd.uum.edu.my/1326/1/ONCHAYA_KHONGKAEW.pdf
http://etd.uum.edu.my/1326/2/1.ONCHAYA_KHONGKAEW.pdf
http://etd.uum.edu.my/1326/
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Summary:Group work is becoming more important in education. Working in groups give students the ability to share ideas, to enhance problem solving skills and to improve communication skills. Thus, group formation becomes a crucial issue in order to increase group capability. However in UUM, several colleges are located remotely and majority of the students do not own personal transport. These create constraints for group meetings and it will effect the group performance. Therefore, this paper proposes method for identifying groups using shortest path approach and we hope this approach is useful for lecturers who have a large class. We also believe that the approach can be integrated with other existing methods in group formation.