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Students enrolled in higher education usually possess a wide range of skills developed through their studies. More often than not they experience skills assessment conducted by focusing only on a single skill at a time. What seems to receive less attention in such assessments is related to finding a systematic way of detecting and consecutively overcoming difficulties caused by a need to apply multiple skills for solving join problems. Our suggestion to handle such troublesome cases is based on the binomial theorem and category scores.
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Encheva, S. (2017). Detection of Troublesome Cases. In: Rocha, Á., Correia, A., Adeli, H., Reis, L., Costanzo, S. (eds) Recent Advances in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 569. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56535-4_9
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