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Denis Shchepakin; Sreecharan Sankaranarayanan; Dawn Zimmaro – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2024
Bayesian Knowledge Tracing (BKT) is a probabilistic model of a learner's state of mastery for a knowledge component. The learner's state is a "hidden" binary variable updated based on the correctness of the learner's responses to questions corresponding to that knowledge component. The parameters used for this update are inferred/learned…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Bayesian Statistics, Probability, Artificial Intelligence
Shermis, Mark D.; And Others – 1992
The reliability of four branching algorithms commonly used in computer adaptive testing (CAT) was examined. These algorithms were: (1) maximum likelihood (MLE); (2) Bayesian; (3) modal Bayesian; and (4) crossover. Sixty-eight undergraduate college students were randomly assigned to one of the four conditions using the HyperCard-based CAT program,…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Algorithms, Bayesian Statistics, Comparative Analysis