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ERIC Number: ED630843
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 11
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Automated Search for Logistic Knowledge Tracing Models
Philip I. Pavlik; Luke G. Eglington
International Educational Data Mining Society, Paper presented at the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) (16th, Bengaluru, India, Jul 11-14, 2023)
This paper presents a tool for creating student models in logistic regression. Creating student models has typically been done by expert selection of the appropriate terms, beginning with models as simple as IRT or AFM but more recently with highly complex models like BestLR. While alternative methods exist to select the appropriate predictors for the regression-based models (e.g., stepwise selection or LASSO), we are unaware of their application to student modeling. Such automatic methods of model creation offer the possibility of better student models with either reduced complexity or better fit, in addition to relieving experts from the burden of searching for better models by hand with possible human error. Our new functions are now part of the preexisting R package LKT. We explain our search methods with two datasets demonstrating the advantages of using the tool with stepwise regression and regularization (LASSO) methods to aid in feature selection. For the stepwise method using BIC, the models are simpler (due to the BIC penalty for parameters) than alternatives like BestLR with little lack of fit. For the LASSO method, the models can be made simpler due to the fitting procedure involving a regularization parameter that penalizes large absolute coefficient values. However, LASSO also offers the possibility of highly complex models with exceptional fit. [For the complete proceedings, see ED630829.]
International Educational Data Mining Society. e-mail: admin@educationaldatamining.org; Web site: https://educationaldatamining.org/conferences/
Related Records: ED629750
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF); Institute of Education Sciences (ED)
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IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: 1934745; R305A190448
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