Summary of Personalized Knowledge Tracing Through Student Representation Reconstruction and Class Imbalance Mitigation, by Zhiyu Chen et al.
Personalized Knowledge Tracing through Student Representation Reconstruction and Class Imbalance Mitigation
by Zhiyu Chen, Wei Ji, Jing Xiao, Zitao Liu
First submitted to arxiv on: 10 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computers and Society (cs.CY)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes a novel approach for personalized knowledge tracing called PKT, which reconstructs representations from sequences of interactions with a tutoring platform to capture latent information about students. The current models in the field overlook individual student characteristics, limiting their capability for personalized assessment. To address this issue, PKT incorporates focal loss to prioritize minority classes and achieve more balanced predictions. Experimental results on four publicly available educational datasets show that PKT outperforms 16 state-of-the-art models. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary PKT is a new way to predict how well students will do in the future by looking at their past interactions with online learning platforms. This helps teachers give better assessments and tailor education to each student’s needs. Right now, some models can make good predictions but don’t take into account individual differences between students. PKT tries to fix this by using special techniques to learn from students’ past interactions. It also helps balance the data so that it’s fair for all students. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Online learning
