Approximate modelling of the multi-dimensional learner

  • Authors:
  • Rafael Morales;Nicolas van Labeke;Paul Brna

  • Affiliations:
  • The SCRE Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom;The SCRE Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom;The SCRE Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • ITS'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper describes the design of the learner modelling component of the LeActiveMath system, which was conceived to integrate modelling of learners' competencies in a subject domain, motivational and affective dispositions and meta-cognition. This goal has been achieved by organising learner models as stacks, with the subject domain as ground layer and competency, motivation, affect and meta-cognition as upper layers. A concept map per layer defines each layer's elements and internal structure, and beliefs are associated to the applications of elements in upper-layers to elements in lower-layers. Beliefs are represented using belief functions and organised in a network constructed as the composition of all layers' concept maps, which is used for propagation of evidence.