Analysis of a simple model of problem solving times

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Authors

PELÁNEK Radek JARUŠEK Petr

Year of publication 2012
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Proceeding ITS'12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
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Faculty of Informatics

Citation
Web http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xpelanek/publications/its12.pdf
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30950-2_49
Field Informatics
Keywords Problem solving; intelligent tutoring systems; item response theory.
Description Our aim is to improve problem selection and recommendation in intelligent tutoring systems by modeling students problem solving times. We describe a simple model which assumes a linear relationship between latent problem solving ability and a logarithm of time to solve a problem. We show that this model is related to models from two different areas: the item response theory and collaborative filtering. Each of these areas provides inspiration for parameter estimation procedure and for possible extensions. The model is already applied in a widely used "Problem solving tutor"; using the data collected by this system we evaluate the model and analyse its parameter values.
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