KT4EQG's education-value objective produces an adaptive KC-selection policy: weaker students are given better-mastered concepts and stronger students progressively more challenging ones¶

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q2 i? Analysis of selected KCs on the Application Module shows selection favors higher-mastery KCs for weaker students and shifts toward more challenging KCs as student mastery increases. → Xinyi Gao 2026

Evidence¶

Xinyi Gao 2026¶

Xinyi Gao, Qiucheng Wu, Lu Ding, Q. Vera Liao, Kaizhi Qian, Ying Xu, Shiyu Chang, Yang Zhang. (2026). KT4EQG: Personalized Exercise Question Generation via Knowledge Tracing. Preprint. Under review. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23933 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2605.23933

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Analysis of the KC selected for each truncated history on the Application Module, with students ranked by initial mastery and candidate KCs ranked by mastery probability (66 candidate KCs); the smoothed trend in Figure 3 shows "a clear adaptive pattern".

"For weaker students, the selection tends to favor KCs with higher mastery levels and avoid concepts that are too difficult. For students with higher mastery, the selection progressively shifts toward more challenging KCs."

Discussion¶

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