The Festschrift introduction reports that Rimac versions with student models outperformed versions without or with weaker student models, with dynamic updating helping both high and low prior knowledge students¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · causal r? · q2
Currency · newest study 2021 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q is the design tier, i the impact, n the sample, and the kind with its r the rigour judged within that kind: what each code means.

This claim: no standardized effect is recorded in observations/ for it yet, so no benchmark reading is possible.

q2 i? A version of Rimac with static student models initialized using pretest scores outperformed a version without student models for high prior knowledge students. → Gord McCalla · Julita Vassileva 2021 q2 i? A version of Rimac with dynamically updated student models outperformed the static student model version for both high and low prior knowledge students. → Gord McCalla · Julita Vassileva 2021 (2)

Evidence¶

Gord McCalla · Julita Vassileva 2021¶

Gord McCalla · Julita Vassileva. (2021). A Festschrift to Honour Jim Greer: Guest Editors’ Introduction — A Special Issue of the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (2021) 31:337–356. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-021-00273-z

q2 · i? · causal · r?

The introduction reports, describing Katz et al.'s Festschrift paper, one of two classroom-based studies of the Rimac physics dialogue system: the static-model version "outperformed a version without student models for high prior knowledge students". No effect sizes are printed.

"One study showed that a version of Rimac with static student models (initialized using pretest scores) outperformed a version without student models for high prior knowledge students."

Gord McCalla · Julita Vassileva 2021 (2)¶

q2 · i? · causal · r?

The introduction reports the second of two classroom-based studies of Rimac in the Festschrift paper by Katz et al.: dynamic updating "outperformed the static student model version for both high and low prior knowledge students". No effect sizes are printed.

"The other study showed that a version of Rimac in which the student models were dynamically updated during the learning process outperformed the static student model version for both high and low prior knowledge students."

Discussion¶

Part 1 of the Festschrift contains 7 papers on learner modelling and personalization and 4 on evaluation, reflecting Jim Greer's early interests

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`title`	`The Festschrift introduction reports that Rimac versions with student models outperformed versions without or with weaker student models, with dynamic updating helping both high and low prior knowledge students`
`description`	`The Festschrift introduction reports that Rimac versions with student models outperformed versions without or with weaker student models, with dynamic updating helping both high and low prior knowledge students`
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