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Beyond Knowledge Tracing. Modeling Skill Topologies with Bayesian Networks

Käser, Tanja  
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Klingler, Severin
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Schwing, Alexander G.
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2014
Proceedings of the 12th Intl. Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS)
12th International Conference, ITS 2014

Modeling and predicting student knowledge is a fundamental task of an intelligent tutoring system. A popular approach for student modeling is Bayesian Knowledge Tracing (BKT). BKT models, however, lack the ability to describe the hierarchy and relationships between the different skills of a learning domain. In this work, we therefore aim at increasing the representational power of the student model by employing dynamic Bayesian networks that are able to represent such skill topologies. To ensure model interpretability, we constrain the parameter space. We evaluate the performance of our models on five large-scale data sets of different learning domains such as mathematics, spelling learning and physics, and demonstrate that our approach outperforms BKT in prediction accuracy on unseen data across all learning domains.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-07221-0_23000343081600023
Author(s)
Käser, Tanja  
Klingler, Severin
Schwing, Alexander G.
Gross, Markus
Date Issued

2014

Publisher

Springer

Published in
Proceedings of the 12th Intl. Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS)
Issue

8474

Start page

188

End page

198

Subjects

Bayesian networks

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Knowledge Tracing

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Constrained optimization

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Parameter learning

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Prediction

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/91477
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OTHER

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ML4ED  
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12th International Conference, ITS 2014

Honolulu, HI, USA

June 5-9, 2014

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July 14, 2020
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