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Knowledge Tracing as a Learner-Modeling Task

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Description

The survey defines knowledge tracing (KT) as a learner-modeling task over sequences of exercise interactions: "knowledge tracing aims to monitor students’ evolving knowledge states during the learning process and predict their performance on future exercises." Each interaction pairs an exercise, its knowledge concepts, a correctness label and side information, and the traced states can then be used to individualize students' learning schemes.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • A recorded sequence of learning interactions per student: the exercise, its related knowledge concepts, the correct/incorrect answer, and any side information

Constraints

  • The survey notes KT quality is currently evaluated indirectly through the student performance prediction task rather than directly on the knowledge states

Target Learners

  • Students whose exercise-answering interactions are recorded by online learning systems such as ASSISTments, Junyi Academy, Eedi and EdNet's Santa tutor

Target Learning Objectives

  • Monitoring students' evolving knowledge states on knowledge concepts and predicting performance on future exercises

Claims

  • Adaptive Learning
  • Mastery Learning

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Shuanghong Shen, Qi Liu, Zhenya Huang, Yonghe Zheng, Minghao Yin, Minjuan Wang, and Enhong Chen. (2021). A Survey of Knowledge Tracing: Models, Variants, and Applications. https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.15106
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