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- research-articleOctober 2024
Revisiting Knowledge Tracing: A Simple and Powerful Model
MM '24: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on MultimediaPages 263–272https://doi.org/10.1145/3664647.3681205Advances in multimedia technology and its widespread application in education have made multimedia learning increasingly important. Knowledge Tracing (KT) is the key technology for achieving adaptive multimedia learning, aiming to monitor the degree of ...
- research-articleSeptember 2024
Where's the Data? Finding and Reusing Datasets in Computing Education
- Natalie Kiesler,
- John Impagliazzo,
- Katarzyna Biernacka,
- Amanpreet Kapoor,
- Zain Kazmi,
- Sujeeth Goud Ramagoni,
- Aamod Sane,
- Keith Tran,
- Shubbhi Taneja,
- Zihan Wu
CompEd 2023: Working Group Reports on 2023 ACM Conference on Global Computing EducationPages 31–60https://doi.org/10.1145/3598579.3689378Computing education research (CER) is a rapidly advancing discipline, offering vast potential for data-driven, secondary research or replication studies. Although gathering and analyzing data for research seem straightforward, making research data ...
- research-articleAugust 2024
DyGKT: Dynamic Graph Learning for Knowledge Tracing
KDD '24: Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data MiningPages 409–420https://doi.org/10.1145/3637528.3671773Knowledge Tracing aims to assess student learning states by predicting their performance in answering questions. Different from the existing research which utilizes fixed-length learning sequence to obtain the student states and regards KT as a static ...
- research-articleAugust 2024
Understanding Informatics in Continuing Vocational Education and Training Data in Germany
ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE), Volume 24, Issue 3Article No.: 36, Pages 1–22https://doi.org/10.1145/3665932Objectives. The purpose of this study is to reveal the importance of informatics in continuing vocational education in Germany. The labour market is a field with diverse data structures and multiple applications, for example connecting jobseekers and ...
- ArticleAugust 2024
LLM-Driven Ontology Learning to Augment Student Performance Analysis in Higher Education
AbstractIn educational settings, a challenge is the lack of linked and labeled data, hindering effective analysis. The integration of ontology facilitates the formulation of educational knowledge concepts, student behaviors, and their relations. ...
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- research-articleAugust 2024
Seeking Consent for Programming Process Data Collection with Trustee-Based Encryption
ICER '24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research - Volume 1Pages 131–142https://doi.org/10.1145/3632620.3671125Collecting fine-grained programming process data may require students’ informed consent in order to comply with ethical and legal regulations. Previous studies suggest that such consent is not always given in the context of graded introductory ...
- ArticleAugust 2024
Deep Knowledge Tracking Integrating Programming Exercise Difficulty and Forgetting Factors
Advanced Intelligent Computing Technology and ApplicationsPages 192–203https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-5678-0_17AbstractTo address the limitations of existing deep knowledge tracing models that often consider the factors influencing learners’ knowledge state changes from a single perspective, lacking a comprehensive analysis of multiple dimensions such as problems, ...
- research-articleJuly 2024
Improving Knowledge Tracing via Considering Conceptual Structure and Individual Differences
ACM-TURC '24: Proceedings of the ACM Turing Award Celebration Conference - China 2024Pages 59–65https://doi.org/10.1145/3674399.3674427The Knowledge Tracing (KT) task aims to track changes in students’ knowledge state based on their historical answer sequences and predict student’s future performance. Existing KT models have two limitations. One is that these models do not fully ...
- research-articleJuly 2024
Combining Local Testing with Automatic Commits: Benefits for Progress Tracking and CS2 Students' Learning Experience
ITiCSE 2024: Proceedings of the 2024 on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 1Pages 108–114https://doi.org/10.1145/3649217.3653561Many instructors in introductory programming courses experience high dropout and failure rates. Identifying struggling students early is a prerequisite to target this problem. To this end, instructors and learning analytics researchers may leverage ...
- ArticleJune 2024
MonaCoBERT: Monotonic Attention Based ConvBERT for Knowledge Tracing
Generative Intelligence and Intelligent Tutoring SystemsPages 107–123https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63031-6_10AbstractKnowledge tracing (KT) is a research area of predicting students’ knowledge states using their interaction data, such as concepts, questions, and responses. Most deep learning-based KT models have suffered from attributions of KT datasets such as ...
- short-paperJune 2024
InsProg: Supporting Teaching Through Visual Analysis of Students’ Programming Processes
AVI '24: Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Advanced Visual InterfacesArticle No.: 47, Pages 1–5https://doi.org/10.1145/3656650.3656668Teachers commonly assess students’ knowledge mastery through their submitted programming assignments. However, programming is a dynamic process that involves editing and debugging, and this evaluation may overlook the actual abilities exhibited by ...
- research-articleMay 2024
Interpretable Knowledge Tracing with Multiscale State Representation
WWW '24: Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024Pages 3265–3276https://doi.org/10.1145/3589334.3645373Knowledge Tracing (KT) is vital for education, continuously monitoring students' knowledge states (mastery of knowledge) as they interact with online education materials. Despite significant advancements in deep learning-based KT models, existing ...
- research-articleFebruary 2024
Characteristics of students’ learning behavior preferences — an analysis of self-commentary data based on the LDA model
Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems: Applications in Engineering and Technology (JIFS), Volume 46, Issue 2Pages 4495–4509https://doi.org/10.3233/JIFS-232971How to better grasp students’ learning preferences in the environment of rapid development of engineering and science and technology so as to guide them to high-quality learning is one of the important research topics in the field of educational ...
- research-articleFebruary 2024
Ensuring Ethical, Transparent, and Auditable Use of Education Data and Algorithms on AutoML
MLNLP '23: Proceedings of the 2023 6th International Conference on Machine Learning and Natural Language ProcessingPages 66–72https://doi.org/10.1145/3639479.3639492Automated machine learning (AutoML) creates additional opportunities for less advanced users to build and test their own data mining models. Even though AutoML creates the models for the user, there is still technical knowledge and tools needed to ...
- abstractDecember 2023
Where's the Data? Exploring Datasets in Computing Education
- Natalie Kiesler,
- John Impagliazzo,
- Katarzyna Biernacka,
- Amanpreet Kapoor,
- Zain Kazmi,
- Sujeeth Goud Ramagoni,
- Aamod Sane,
- Keith Tran,
- Shubbhi Taneja,
- Zihan Wu
CompEd 2023: Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Global Computing Education Vol 2Pages 209–210https://doi.org/10.1145/3617650.3624951This working group aims to identify available datasets within the context of computing education research. One particular area of interest is programming education, and the data in question may include students' steps, progress, or submissions in the ...
- research-articleMay 2024
An Empirical Evaluation of Educational Data Mining Techniques in a Dynamic VR Application
- Sara Khorasani,
- Sadia Nawaz,
- Brandon Victor Syiem,
- Jing Wei,
- Zachary A. Pardos,
- Jarrod Knibbe,
- Eduardo Velloso
OzCHI '23: Proceedings of the 35th Australian Computer-Human Interaction ConferencePages 604–623https://doi.org/10.1145/3638380.3638387What makes an expert+ Beat Saber player? In the field of Educational Data Mining (EDM), there are various techniques for estimating latent skill mastery, such as Bayesian Knowledge Tracing (BKT) and Item Response Theory (IRT). While these techniques can ...
- ArticleJanuary 2024
School Dropout Prediction with Class Balancing and Hyperparameter Configuration
- P. Alejandra Cuevas-Chávez,
- Samuel Narciso,
- Eduardo Sánchez-Jiménez,
- Itzel Celerino Pérez,
- Yasmín Hernández,
- Javier Ortiz-Hernandez
Advances in Computational Intelligence. MICAI 2023 International WorkshopsPages 12–20https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51940-6_2AbstractSchool dropout and academic underachievement have significant effects on economic growth and employment in society. This phenomenon impacts not only the intellectual development of students but also their access to desirable job opportunities, ...
- research-articleOctober 2023
No Length Left Behind: Enhancing Knowledge Tracing for Modeling Sequences of Excessive or Insufficient Lengths
CIKM '23: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge ManagementPages 3226–3235https://doi.org/10.1145/3583780.3614988Knowledge tracing (KT) aims to predict students' responses to practices based on their historical question-answering behaviors. However, most current KT methods focus on improving overall AUC, leaving ample room for optimization in modeling sequences of ...
- research-articleOctober 2023
Counterfactual Monotonic Knowledge Tracing for Assessing Students' Dynamic Mastery of Knowledge Concepts
CIKM '23: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge ManagementPages 3236–3246https://doi.org/10.1145/3583780.3614827As the core of the Knowledge Tracking (KT) task, assessing students' dynamic mastery of knowledge concepts is crucial for both offline teaching and online educational applications. Since students' mastery of knowledge concepts is often unlabeled, ...
- research-articleSeptember 2023
Evaluating Distance Measures for Program Repair
ICER '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research - Volume 1Pages 495–507https://doi.org/10.1145/3568813.3600130Background and Context: Struggling with programming assignments while learning to program is a common phenomenon in programming courses around the world. Supporting struggling students is a common theme in Computing Education Research (CER), where a wide ...