Items, skills, and transfer models: Which really matters for student modeling?

EDM 2011 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Educational Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 81-90

  Gong, Y ^a   Beck, J E ^a  

^a WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Item difficulty; Performance factors analysis; Predictive accuracy; Student performance

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE TUTORS; EDUCATIONAL DATA MINING; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEM; ITEM DIFFICULTY; MODEL ACCURACY; PERFORMANCE FACTORS; PREDICTIVE ACCURACY; SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY; STUDENT MODELING; STUDENT MODELS; STUDENT PERFORMANCE; TRANSFER MODELS;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; DATA MINING; FACTOR ANALYSIS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84855646358     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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