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Bayesian Networks for the Test Score Prediction: A Case Study on a Math Graduation Exam

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    0545875 - ÚTIA 2022 RIV CH eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
    Plajner, Martin - Vomlel, Jiří
    Bayesian Networks for the Test Score Prediction: A Case Study on a Math Graduation Exam.
    Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty. ECSQARU 2021.. Cham: Springer, 2021 - (Vejnarová, J.; Wilson, N.), s. 255-267. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 12897. ISBN 978-3-030-86771-3. ISSN 0302-9743. E-ISSN 1611-3349.
    [ECSQARU 2021 : Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty. Praha (CZ), 21.09.2021-24.09.2021]
    R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA19-04579S
    Institutional support: RVO:67985556
    Keywords : Bayesian networks * Educational testing * Score prediction * Efficient probabilistic inference * Multidimensional IRT * CP tensor decomposition
    OECD category: Robotics and automatic control
    http://library.utia.cas.cz/separaty/2021/MTR/plajner-0545875.pdf

    In this paper we study the problem of student knowledge level estimation. We use probabilistic models learned from collected data to model the tested students. We propose and compare experimentally several different Bayesian network models for the score prediction of student’s knowledge. The proposed scoring algorithm provides not only the expected value of the total score but the whole probability distribution of the total score. This means that confidence intervals of predicted total score can be provided along the expected value. The key that enabled efficient computations with the studied models is a newly proposed inference algorithm based on the CP tensor decomposition, which is used for the computation of the score distribution. The proposed algorithm is two orders of magnitude faster than a state of the art method. We report results of experimental comparisons on a large dataset from the Czech National Graduation Exam in Mathematics. In this evaluation the best performing model is an IRT model with one continuous normally distributed skill variable related to all items by the graded response models. The second best is a multidimensional IRT model with an expert structure of items-skills relations and a covariance matrix for the skills. This model has a higher improvement with larger training sets and seems to be the model of choice if a sufficiently large training dataset is available.
    Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0323622

     
     
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