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ERIC Number: ED670843
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Jul
Pages: 9
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
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Available Date: 0000-00-00
LOOL: Towards Personalization with Flexible & Robust Estimation of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
Duy M. Pham1; Kirk P. Vanacore1; Adam C. Sales1; Johann A. Gagnon-Bartsch2
Grantee Submission, Paper presented at the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (17th, Atlanta, GA, Jul 2024)
Effective personalization of education requires knowing how each student will perform under certain conditions, given their specific characteristics. Thus, the demand for interpretable and precise estimation of heterogeneous treatment effects is ever-present. This paper outlines a new approach to this problem based on the Leave-One-Out Potential Outcomes (LOOP) Estimator, which unbiasedly estimates individual treatment effects (ITE) from experiments. By regressing these estimates on a set of moderators, we obtain parameterized and easily interpretable estimates of conditional average treatment effects (CATE) that allow us to understand which individuals will likely benefit from each condition. We implement this approach with real-world data from an efficacy study that included four experimental conditions for instructing middle-school algebra. Our models indicate that treatment effect heterogeneity is significantly associated with students' prior subject knowledge and whether English is their native language. We then discuss possibilities for applications to enhance personalized assignments. [This paper was published in: "Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Educational Data Mining," edited by B. PaaBen and C. D. Epp, International Educational Data Mining Society, 2024, pp. 376-84.]
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences (ED)
Authoring Institution: N/A
IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: R305D210031
Department of Education Funded: Yes