ERIC Number: ED593099
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Jul
Pages: 11
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Improving Stealth Assessment in Game-Based Learning with LSTM-Based Analytics
Akram, Bita; Min, Wookhee; Wiebe, Eric; Mott, Bradford; Boyer, Kristy Elizabeth; Lester, James
International Educational Data Mining Society, Paper presented at the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) (11th, Raleigh, NC, Jul 16-20, 2018)
A key affordance of game-based learning environments is their potential to unobtrusively assess student learning without interfering with gameplay. In this paper, we introduce a temporal analytics framework for stealth assessment that analyzes students' problem-solving strategies. The strategy-based temporal analytic framework uses long short-term memory network-based evidence models and clusters sequences of students' problem-solving behaviors across consecutive tasks. We investigate this strategy based temporal analytics framework on a dataset of problem solving behaviors collected from student interactions with a game-based learning environment for middle school computational thinking. The results of an evaluation indicate that the strategy-based temporal analytics framework significantly outperforms competitive baseline models with respect to stealth assessment predictive accuracy. [For the full proceedings, see ED593090.]
Descriptors: Educational Games, Problem Solving, Educational Environment, Short Term Memory, Middle School Students, Computation, Thinking Skills, Interaction, Learner Engagement, Models
International Educational Data Mining Society. e-mail: admin@educationaldatamining.org; Web site: http://www.educationaldatamining.org
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: Middle Schools; Secondary Education; Junior High Schools
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
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Grant or Contract Numbers: CNS1138497; DRL1640141
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