PKT-ISALS: 融合学生能力与学习状态的个性化知识追踪模型

PKT-ISALS: Personalized Knowledge Tracing Model Integrating Student Ability and Learning State

  • 摘要: 智慧教育中的知识追踪任务旨在根据学生的历史作答行为预测学生的未来作答表现。现有知识追踪模型忽略了短期学习状态波动对作答行为的影响,导致估计学生的知识状态时易产生偏差。针对上述情况,文章提出了一种融合学生能力与学习状态的个性化知识追踪模型(PKT-ISALS):首先,基于学生的历史作答交互序列提取短期学习状态,刻画学生在学习过程中的阶段性波动,实现了学生长期学习状态的建模;其次,提出了错误成因判别机制,目的是综合考虑学生能力、学习状态及题目特征,对错误作答由短期状态波动引起的可能性进行估计;最后,通过增量形式调节知识状态的更新幅度,使知识状态更新更加符合真实学习过程的累积性特征。在4个公开数据集(ASSIST09、ASSIST12、ASSISTChall和algebra05)上,将PKT-ISALS模型与6个主流知识追踪模型(DKT、DKVMN、SAKT、AKT、DTransformer、FKT)进行了对比实验,并进一步开展了消融实验。对比实验结果表明PKT-ISALS模型在不同数据集上均取得了优于基线模型的预测性能:在ASSIST12、ASSISTChall、algebra05数据集上,相较于最优的的基线模型FKT,PKT-ISALS模型的AUC值分别提升了约1.0%、约3.8%、约0.6%,ACC值分别提升了约0.7%、约2.6%、约0.2%,RMSE值分别下降了约1.1%、约2.6%、约1.0%;在ASSIST09数据集上,相较于最优的基线模型DTransformer,PKT-ISALS模型的AUC值提升约2.1%,ACC值提升约1.2%,RMSE值下降约3.0%。消融实验结果进一步表明,长期能力建模、短期学习状态建模以及错误成因判别机制均能够有效提升模型性能,其中短期学习状态模块在长序列学习行为建模中表现出更显著的作用。总体来看,PKT-ISALS模型能够更细粒度地刻画学生学习过程中的知识状态的变化,从而提升模型的预测精度。

     

    Abstract: The knowledge tracing task in smart education aims to predict students' future answering performance based on students' historical answering behavior. Existing knowledge tracing models ignore the influence of short-term learning state fluctuations on answering behavior, resulting in bias in estimating students' knowledge status. In view of the above situation, a personalized knowledge tracing model (PKT-ISALS) that integrates students' ability and lear-ning status is proposed: Firstly, the short-term learning state is extracted based on the interactive sequence of students' historical answers, and the phased fluctuations of students in the learning process are described, so as to realize the modeling of students' long-term learning state; Secondly, the purpose is to estimate the possibility of short-term state fluctuations in wrong answers by comprehensively considering students' ability, learning status and question characteristics. Finally, the update amplitude of knowledge state is adjusted in incremental form to make the know- ledge state update more in line with the cumulative characteristics of the real learning process. On the four public datasets of ASSIST09, ASSIST12, ASSISTChall and algebra05, the PKT-ISALS model was compared with six mainstream knowledge tracing models such as DKT, DKVMN, SAKT, AKT, DTransformer and FKT, and the ablation experiment was further carried out to verify the effectiveness of each key module. The comparative experimental results show that the PKT-ISALS model achieves better prediction performance than the baseline model on different datasets. On the ASSIST12, ASSISTChall, and algebra05 datasets, compared with the optimal baseline model FKT, AUC of PKT-ISALS model increases by approximately 1.0%, 3.8%, and 0.6%, respectively. ACC of PKT-ISALS model increases by approximately 0.7%, 2.6%, and 0.2%, while RMSE of PKT-ISALS model decreases by approximately 1.1%, 2.6%, and 1.0%, respectively. On the ASSIST09 dataset, compared with the optimal baseline model DTransformer, AUC and ACC of PKT-ISALS model increase by approximately 2.1% and 1.2%, respectively, while RMSE of PKT-ISALS model decreases by approximately 3.0%. In addition, the ablation experiment results further show that long-term ability modeling, short-term learning state modeling and error cause discrimination mechanism can effectively improve model performance, among which the short-term learning state module plays a more significant role in long-sequence learning behavior modeling. In general, PKT-ISALS can describe the changes in students' knowledge state in the learning process at a more granular level, and improve the prediction accuracy of the model.

     

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