Skills Embeddings: A Neural Approach to Multicomponent Representations of Students and Tasks

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العنوان: Skills Embeddings: A Neural Approach to Multicomponent Representations of Students and Tasks
اللغة: English
المؤلفون: Moore, Russell, Caines, Andrew, Elliott, Mark, Zaidi, Ahm, Rice, Andrew, Buttery, Paula
المصدر: International Educational Data Mining Society. 2019.
الإتاحة: International Educational Data Mining Society. e-mail: admin@educationaldatamining.org; Web site: http://www.educationaldatamining.orgTest
تمت مراجعته من قبل الزملاء: Y
Page Count: 6
تاريخ النشر: 2019
نوع الوثيقة: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Reports - Research
الواصفات: Models, Knowledge Representation, Skills, Artificial Intelligence, Students, Computation, Data Analysis
مستخلص: Educational systems use models of student skill to inform decision-making processes. Defining such models manually is challenging due to the large number of relevant factors. We propose learning multidimensional representations (embeddings) from student activity data -- these are fixed-length real vectors with three desirable characteristics: co-location of similar students and items in a vector space; magnitude increases with skill, and that absence of a skill can be represented. Based on the Multi-component Latent Trait Model, we use a neural network with complementary trainable weights to learn these embeddings by back-propagation. We evaluate using synthetic student activity data that provides a ground truth of student skills in order to understand the impact of number of students, question items and knowledge components in the domain. We find that our data-mined parameter values can recreate the synthetic datasets up to the accuracy of the model that generated them, for domains with up to 10 simultaneously active knowledge components, which can be effectively mined using relatively small quantities of data (1000 students, 100 items). We describe a procedure to estimate the number of components in a domain, and propose a component-masking logic mechanism that improves performance on high-dimensional datasets. [For the full proceedings, see ED599096.]
Abstractor: As Provided
Entry Date: 2019
رقم الانضمام: ED599256
قاعدة البيانات: ERIC