Huang, Y and Xu, Y and Brusilovsky, P
(2014)
Doing more with less: Student modeling and performance prediction with reduced content models.
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Abstract
When modeling student knowledge and predicting student performance, adaptive educational systems frequently rely on content models that connect learning content (i.e., problems) with its underlying domain knowledge (i.e., knowledge components, KCs) required to complete it. In some domains, such as programming, the number of KCs associated with advanced learning contents is quite large. It complicates modeling due to increasing noise and decreases efficiency. We argue that the efficiency of modeling and prediction in such domains could be improved without the loss of quality by reducing problems content models to a subset of most important KCs. To prove this hypothesis, we evaluate several KC reduction methods varying reduction size by assessing the prediction performance of Knowledge Tracing and Performance Factor Analysis. The results show that the predictive performance using reduced content models can be significantly better than using original one, with extra benefits of reducing time and space.
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Date: |
1 January 2014 |
Date Type: |
Publication |
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No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately. |
Journal or Publication Title: |
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
Volume: |
8538 |
Page Range: |
338 - 349 |
Event Type: |
Conference |
DOI or Unique Handle: |
10.1007/978-3-319-08786-3_30 |
Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
Schools and Programs: |
Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > Intelligent Systems |
Refereed: |
Yes |
ISBN: |
9783319087856 |
ISSN: |
0302-9743 |
Date Deposited: |
27 Aug 2015 19:02 |
Last Modified: |
30 Mar 2021 15:55 |
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http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/26057 |
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