Ensembling predictions of student post-test scores for an intelligent tutoring system

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 189-198

  Pardos, Zachary A ^a   Gowda, Sujith M ^a   Baker, Ryan S J D ^a   Heffernan, Neil T ^a  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian Knowledge Tracing; Cognitive Tutor; Ensemble methods; Performance factors analysis; Student modeling

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN KNOWLEDGE-TRACING; COGNITIVE TUTORS; ENSEMBLE METHODS; PERFORMANCE FACTORS; STUDENT MODELING;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; DATA MINING; EDUCATION COMPUTING; FACTOR ANALYSIS; FORECASTING; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84857459985     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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