Data-driven student knowledge assessment through ill-defined procedural tasks

  • Authors:
  • Jaime Gálvez;Eduardo Guzmán;Ricardo Conejo

  • Affiliations:
  • Dpto. de Lenguajes y Ciencias de la Computación, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain;Dpto. de Lenguajes y Ciencias de la Computación, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain;Dpto. de Lenguajes y Ciencias de la Computación, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain

  • Venue:
  • CAEPIA'09 Proceedings of the Current topics in artificial intelligence, and 13th conference on Spanish association for artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The Item Response Theory (IRT) is a statistical mechanism successfully used since the beginning of the 20th century to infer student knowledge through tests. Nevertheless, existing well-founded techniques to assess procedural tasks are generally complex and applied to well-defined tasks. In this paper, we describe how, using a set of techniques we have developed based on IRT, it is possible to infer declarative student knowledge through procedural tasks. We describe how these techniques have been used with undergraduate students, in the object oriented programming domain, through ill-defined procedural exercises.