Differentiating Student Feedbacks for Knowledge Tracing

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Autori principali: Cui, Jiajun, Qian, Hong, Zheng, Chanjin, Wang, Lu, Yu, Mo, Zhang, Wei
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author Cui, Jiajun
Qian, Hong
Zheng, Chanjin
Wang, Lu
Yu, Mo
Zhang, Wei
author_facet Cui, Jiajun
Qian, Hong
Zheng, Chanjin
Wang, Lu
Yu, Mo
Zhang, Wei
contents Knowledge tracing (KT) is a crucial task in computer-aided education and intelligent tutoring systems, predicting students' performance on new questions from their responses to prior ones. An accurate KT model can capture a student's mastery level of different knowledge topics, as reflected in their predicted performance on different questions. This helps improve the learning efficiency by suggesting appropriate new questions that complement students' knowledge states. However, current KT models have significant drawbacks that they neglect the imbalanced discrimination of historical responses. A significant proportion of question responses provide limited information for discerning students' knowledge mastery, such as those that demonstrate uniform performance across different students. Optimizing the prediction of these cases may increase overall KT accuracy, but also negatively impact the model's ability to trace personalized knowledge states, especially causing a deceptive surge of performance. Towards this end, we propose a framework to reweight the contribution of different responses based on their discrimination in training. Additionally, we introduce an adaptive predictive score fusion technique to maintain accuracy on less discriminative responses, achieving proper balance between student knowledge mastery and question difficulty. Experimental results demonstrate that our framework enhances the performance of three mainstream KT methods on three widely-used datasets.
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spellingShingle Differentiating Student Feedbacks for Knowledge Tracing
Cui, Jiajun
Qian, Hong
Zheng, Chanjin
Wang, Lu
Yu, Mo
Zhang, Wei
Computers and Society
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Knowledge tracing (KT) is a crucial task in computer-aided education and intelligent tutoring systems, predicting students' performance on new questions from their responses to prior ones. An accurate KT model can capture a student's mastery level of different knowledge topics, as reflected in their predicted performance on different questions. This helps improve the learning efficiency by suggesting appropriate new questions that complement students' knowledge states. However, current KT models have significant drawbacks that they neglect the imbalanced discrimination of historical responses. A significant proportion of question responses provide limited information for discerning students' knowledge mastery, such as those that demonstrate uniform performance across different students. Optimizing the prediction of these cases may increase overall KT accuracy, but also negatively impact the model's ability to trace personalized knowledge states, especially causing a deceptive surge of performance. Towards this end, we propose a framework to reweight the contribution of different responses based on their discrimination in training. Additionally, we introduce an adaptive predictive score fusion technique to maintain accuracy on less discriminative responses, achieving proper balance between student knowledge mastery and question difficulty. Experimental results demonstrate that our framework enhances the performance of three mainstream KT methods on three widely-used datasets.
title Differentiating Student Feedbacks for Knowledge Tracing
topic Computers and Society
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.14695