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Tang, Steven; Gogel, Hannah; McBride, Elizabeth; Pardos, Zachary A. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2015
Online adaptive tutoring systems are increasingly being used in classrooms as a way to provide guided learning for students. Such tutors have the potential to provide tailored feedback based on specific student needs and misunderstandings. Bayesian knowledge tracing (BKT) is used to model student knowledge when knowledge is assumed to be changing…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Difficulty Level, Bayesian Statistics, Models
Liu, Ran; Koedinger, Kenneth R. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2015
A growing body of research suggests that accounting for student specific variability in educational data can improve modeling accuracy and may have implications for individualizing instruction. The Additive Factors Model (AFM), a logistic regression model used to fit educational data and discover/refine skill models of learning, contains a…
Descriptors: Models, Regression (Statistics), Learning, Classification
Hao, Haijing – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Information technology adoption and diffusion is currently a significant challenge in the healthcare delivery setting. This thesis includes three papers that explore social influence on information technology adoption and sustained use in the healthcare delivery environment using conventional regression models and novel hierarchical Bayesian…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Technology Integration, Adoption (Ideas), Social Influences
Barnes, Tiffany, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Romero, Cristobal, Ed.; Ventura, Sebastian, Ed. – International Working Group on Educational Data Mining, 2009
The Second International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM2009) was held at the University of Cordoba, Spain, on July 1-3, 2009. EDM brings together researchers from computer science, education, psychology, psychometrics, and statistics to analyze large data sets to answer educational research questions. The increase in instrumented…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Research, Conferences (Gatherings), Foreign Countries