1 code implementation • 31 Mar 2024 • Qi Liu, Yan Zhuang, Haoyang Bi, Zhenya Huang, Weizhe Huang, Jiatong Li, Junhao Yu, Zirui Liu, Zirui Hu, Yuting Hong, Zachary A. Pardos, Haiping Ma, Mengxiao Zhu, Shijin Wang, Enhong Chen
Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) provides an efficient and tailored method for assessing the proficiency of examinees, by dynamically adjusting test questions based on their performance.
no code implementations • 14 Feb 2023 • Zachary A. Pardos, Shreya Bhandari
Learning gains from human-created hints were substantially and statistically significantly higher than ChatGPT hints in both topic areas, though ChatGPT participants in the Intermediate Algebra experiment were near ceiling and not even with the control at pre-test.
1 code implementation • 20 Dec 2022 • Conrad Borchers, Zachary A. Pardos
Course load analytics (CLA) inferred from LMS and enrollment features can offer a more accurate representation of course workload to students than credit hours and potentially aid in their course selection decisions.
no code implementations • 14 May 2021 • Weijie Jiang, Zachary A. Pardos
With equity of educational outcome as the aim, we trial strategies for boosting predictive performance on historically underserved groups and find success in sampling those groups in inverse proportion to their historic outcomes.
1 code implementation • 10 Feb 2021 • Zhi Li, Cheng Ren, Xianyou Li, Zachary A. Pardos
Assessment and reporting of skills is a central feature of many digital learning platforms.
no code implementations • 2 Jul 2019 • Zachary A. Pardos, Weijie Jiang
Collaborative filtering based algorithms, including Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), tend towards predicting a perpetuation of past observed behavior.
1 code implementation • 25 Dec 2018 • Weijie Jiang, Zachary A. Pardos, Qiang Wei
With cross-disciplinary academic interests increasing and academic advising resources over capacity, the importance of exploring data-assisted methods to support student decision making has never been higher.
no code implementations • 26 Mar 2018 • Zachary A. Pardos, Zihao Fan, Weijie Jiang
The aggregate behaviors of users can collectively encode deep semantic information about the objects with which they interact.
no code implementations • 16 Aug 2016 • Steven Tang, Joshua C. Peterson, Zachary A. Pardos
This research lays the ground work for recommendation in a MOOC and other digital learning environments where high volumes of sequential data exist.
no code implementations • 21 Sep 2015 • Shubhendu Trivedi, Zachary A. Pardos, Neil T. Heffernan
Previous work has hinted at the improvement in prediction accuracy attributed to clustering algorithms if used to pre-process the data.