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Wan-Chong Choi; Chan-Tong Lam; António José Mendes – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2025
Missing data presents a significant challenge in Educational Data Mining (EDM). Imputation techniques aim to reconstruct missing data while preserving critical information in datasets for more accurate analysis. Although imputation techniques have gained attention in various fields in recent years, their use for addressing missing data in…
Descriptors: Research Problems, Data Analysis, Research Methodology, Models
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Doroudi, Shayan; Brunskill, Emma – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2017
In this paper, we investigate two purported problems with Bayesian Knowledge Tracing (BKT), a popular statistical model of student learning: "identifiability" and "semantic model degeneracy." In 2007, Beck and Chang stated that BKT is susceptible to an "identifiability problem"--various models with different…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Research Problems, Models, Learning
Bergner, Yoav; Kerr, Deirdre; Pritchard, David E. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2015
Determining how learners use MOOCs effectively is critical to providing feedback to instructors, schools, and policy-makers on this highly scalable technology. However, drawing inferences about student learning outcomes in MOOCs has proven to be quite difficult due to large amounts of missing data (of various kinds) and to the diverse population…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Data Analysis, Discussion Groups, Outcomes of Education