CET4 passing rate analysis based on fuzzy decision tree induction and active learning

Abstract

College English Test Band Four (CET4) in China has been a significant impact on evaluating the English preliminary level of a college student or a class. How to improve the college English teaching and go further to raise passing rate of CET4 are a challenge for many colleges and universities. This paper makes an attempt to quantitatively analyze the CET4 and exam-related factors by using fussy decision tree technique and active learning based on uncertainty. Several features are selected to formulate this problem. The weighted margin is proposed as the new uncertainty measure criterion for unlabeled instance, and a density measure is introduced for avoiding selecting isolated instances. Experiments and simulations on different classes of students show the proposed quantitative analysis method is feasible and effective, which can provide teachers with some useful guidelines for how to improve the college English teaching.