Improving the portability of predicting students performance models by using ontologies
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| author | Zambrano, Javier Lopez Lara, Juan A. Romero, Cristobal |
| author_facet | Zambrano, Javier Lopez Lara, Juan A. Romero, Cristobal |
| contents | One of the main current challenges in Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics is the portability or transferability of predictive models obtained for a particular course so that they can be applied to other different courses. To handle this challenge, one of the foremost problems is the models excessive dependence on the low-level attributes used to train them, which reduces the models portability. To solve this issue, the use of high level attributes with more semantic meaning, such as ontologies, may be very useful. Along this line, we propose the utilization of an ontology that uses a taxonomy of actions that summarises students interactions with the Moodle learning management system. We compare the results of this proposed approach against our previous results when we used low-level raw attributes obtained directly from Moodle logs. The results indicate that the use of the proposed ontology improves the portability of the models in terms of predictive accuracy. The main contribution of this paper is to show that the ontological models obtained in one source course can be applied to other different target courses with similar usage levels without losing prediction accuracy. |
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| spellingShingle | Improving the portability of predicting students performance models by using ontologies Zambrano, Javier Lopez Lara, Juan A. Romero, Cristobal Artificial Intelligence One of the main current challenges in Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics is the portability or transferability of predictive models obtained for a particular course so that they can be applied to other different courses. To handle this challenge, one of the foremost problems is the models excessive dependence on the low-level attributes used to train them, which reduces the models portability. To solve this issue, the use of high level attributes with more semantic meaning, such as ontologies, may be very useful. Along this line, we propose the utilization of an ontology that uses a taxonomy of actions that summarises students interactions with the Moodle learning management system. We compare the results of this proposed approach against our previous results when we used low-level raw attributes obtained directly from Moodle logs. The results indicate that the use of the proposed ontology improves the portability of the models in terms of predictive accuracy. The main contribution of this paper is to show that the ontological models obtained in one source course can be applied to other different target courses with similar usage levels without losing prediction accuracy. |
| title | Improving the portability of predicting students performance models by using ontologies |
| topic | Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.07358 |