Using data mining findings to aid searching for better cognitive models

  • Authors:
  • Mingyu Feng;Neil T. Heffernan;Kenneth Koedinger

  • Affiliations:
  • SRI International, Menlo Park, CA;Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA;Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Venue:
  • ITS'10 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

One key component of creating an intelligent tutoring system is forming a model that monitors student behavior Researchers in machine learning area have been using automatic/semi-automatic techniques to search for cognitive models One of the semi-automatic approaches is learning factor analysis, which involves human making hypothesis and identifying difficulty factors in the related items In this paper, we propose a hybrid approach in which we leverage findings from our previous educational data mining work to aid the search for a better cognitive model and thus, improve the efficiency of LFA Preliminary results suggest that our approach can lead to significantly better fitted cognitive models fast.