Towards Learning Outcome Prediction via Modeling Question Explanations and Student Responses
Tianqi Wang, Fenglong Ma, Yaqing Wang, Tang Tang, Longfei Zhang, Jing Gao · Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics eBooks · 2021
Predicting the current learning outcome of a student based on his/her responses to previous questions is a vital task for personalized education.Deep learning based models have achieved satisfactory performance on this task as they can automatically extract meaningful signals related to student learning outcome predictions.However, these models are unable to leverage the following critical pieces of information.First, the correct choice to a question is often accompanied by a textual explanation on why this choice is correct.This explanation text contains valuable informa-