Automated Knowledge Concept Annotation and Question Representation Learning for Knowledge Tracing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.01727v1
• Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 16:37:19 GMT
• Title: Automated Knowledge Concept Annotation and Question Representation Learning for Knowledge Tracing
• Authors: Yilmazcan Ozyurt, Stefan Feuerriegel, Mrinmaya Sachan,
• Abstract summary: We present KCQRL, a framework for automated knowledge concept annotation and question representation learning. We demonstrate the effectiveness of KCQRL across 15 KT algorithms on two large real-world Math learning datasets.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Knowledge tracing (KT) is a popular approach for modeling students' learning progress over time, which can enable more personalized and adaptive learning. However, existing KT approaches face two major limitations: (1) they rely heavily on expert-defined knowledge concepts (KCs) in questions, which is time-consuming and prone to errors; and (2) KT methods tend to overlook the semantics of both questions and the given KCs. In this work, we address these challenges and present KCQRL, a framework for automated knowledge concept annotation and question representation learning that can improve the effectiveness of any existing KT model. First, we propose an automated KC annotation process using large language models (LLMs), which generates question solutions and then annotates KCs in each solution step of the questions. Second, we introduce a contrastive learning approach to generate semantically rich embeddings for questions and solution steps, aligning them with their associated KCs via a tailored false negative elimination approach. These embeddings can be readily integrated into existing KT models, replacing their randomly initialized embeddings. We demonstrate the effectiveness of KCQRL across 15 KT algorithms on two large real-world Math learning datasets, where we achieve consistent performance improvements.

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