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ERIC Number: ED592684
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2016
Pages: 8
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Joint Discovery of Skill Prerequisite Graphs and Student Models
Chen, Yetian; González-Brenes, José P.; Tian, Jin
International Educational Data Mining Society, Paper presented at the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) (9th, Raleigh, NC, Jun 29-Jul 2, 2016)
Skill prerequisite information is useful for tutoring systems that assess student knowledge or that provide remediation. These systems often encode prerequisites as graphs designed by subject matter experts in a costly and time-consuming process. In this paper, we introduce "Combined student Modeling and prerequisite Discovery" (COMMAND), a novel algorithm for jointly inferring a prerequisite graph and a student model from data. Learning a COMMAND model requires student performance data and a mapping of items to skills (Q-matrix). COMMAND learns the skill prerequisite relations as a Bayesian network (an encoding of the probabilistic dependence among the skills) via a two-stage learning process. In the first stage, it uses an algorithm called Structural Expectation Maximization to select a class of equivalent Bayesian networks; in the second stage, it uses curriculum information to select a single Bayesian network. Our experiments on simulations and real student data suggest that COMMAND is better than prior methods in the literature. [For the full proceedings, see ED592609.]
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Language: English
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