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Retrospective emulation of evidence-centered design features for learning analytics

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Because the full ECD framework cannot be applied retrospectively to existing game logs, the article recommends emulating its useful features: a student model operationalizing the hypothesized cognitive dynamics (here, the 2SM stances) and an evidence model mapping those dynamics onto observable log variables. The article states "the goal would be to emulate some useful features of ECD, such as the student model and the evidence model". This constrains latent variables, boosts interpretability, and pre-selects likely-significant observed variables.

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  • Emulate evidence-centered design features (student model and evidence model) when applying learning analytics to game logs retrospectively: Because the full ECD framework cannot be applied retrospectively to existing game logs, the article recommends emulating its useful features: a student model operationalizing the hypothesized cognitive dynamics (here, the 2SM stances) and an evidence model mapping those dynamics onto observable log variables. The article states "the goal would be to emulate some useful features of ECD, such as the student model and the evidence model". This constrains latent variables, boosts interpretability, and pre-selects likely-significant observed variables. (Martinez-Garza et al. (2017))

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  • Martinez-Garza, M. M., & Clark, D. B. (2017). Investigating Epistemic Stances in Game Play with Data Mining. International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations, 9(3). https://doi.org/10.4018/IJGCMS.2017070101
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title Retrospective emulation of evidence-centered design features for learning analytics
description Because the full ECD framework cannot be applied retrospectively to existing game logs, the article recommends emulating its useful features: a student model operationalizing the hypothesized cognitive dynamics (here, the 2SM stances) and an evidence model mapping those dynamics onto observable log
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