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Data mining with DataShop. Ken Koedinger CMU Director of PSLC Professor of Human-Computer Interaction & Psychology Carnegie Mellon University. “Knowledge components are the germ of transfer”. Goal of the week: What does Ken mean by this?. Overview. Motivation for data mining - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Data mining with DataShop
Ken Koedinger CMU Director of PSLC
Professor of Human-Computer Interaction & Psychology
Carnegie Mellon University
““Knowledge components Knowledge components are the germ of transfer”are the germ of transfer”
Goal of the week:
What does Ken mean by this?
Overview
Motivation for data mining Better understanding of students =>
better instructional design Exploratory Data Analysis
Data Shop demo, Excel Learning curves & Learning Factors Analysis Example project from last summer
Data Mining Questions & Methods What is going on with student learning &
performance? Exploratory data analysis
Summary & visualization tools in DataShop Tools in Excel: Auto filter, Pivot Tables, Solver
How to reliably model student achievement? Item Response Theory (IRT)
Basis for standardized tests, SAT, GRE, TIMSS… Version of “logistic regression”
Data Mining Questions & Methods 2 What’s the nature of knowledge students are learning?
How can we discover cognitive models of student learning that fit their learning curves? Learning Factors Analysis (LFA)
Extends IRT to account for learning Search algorithm: Discover cognitive model(s) that capture
how student learning transfers over tasks over time What features of a tutor lead to the most learning?
Learning Decomposition Extends LFA to explore different rates of learning due to different
forms of instruction How to extract reliable inferences about causal mechanisms
from correlations in data? Causal modeling using Tetrad
Overview
Motivation for data mining Better understanding of students =>
better instructional design Exploratory Data Analysis
Demo: DataShop, Excel Learning curves & Learning Factors Analysis Example project from last summer
Next
Data Shop Demo …
Before going to DataShop, let’s look at a tutor (1997 version!) that generated the example data set we’ll look at
TWO_CIRCLES_IN_SQUARE problem: Initial screen
TWO_CIRCLES_IN_SQUARE problem: An error a few steps later
TWO_CIRCLES_IN_SQUARE problem: Student follows hint & completes prob
How to get to the DataShop: Go to http://learnlab.org & click …
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PSLC’s DataShop
Researchers get data access, visualizations, statistical tools
Learning curves track student learning over time
Discover what concepts & skills students need help with
PSLC’s DataShop
Learning curves reveal over- and under-practiced knowledge components
Rectangle-area has an initial low error rate, but is practiced often
Other DataShop Features
Error Reports Identify misconceptions by looking for common student errors When do students ask for hints? Are there alternative correct strategies?
Performance Profiler Export Data
Get all or part of the data in tab-delimited file Use your favorite analysis tools …
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Exported File Loaded into Excel
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Overview
Motivation for data mining Better understanding of students =>
better instructional design Exploratory Data Analysis
Data Shop demo, Excel Learning curves & Learning Factors Analysis Example project from last summer
Next
3(2x - 5) = 9
6x - 15 = 9 2x - 5 = 3 6x - 5 = 9
Cognitive Model drives behavior of intelligent tutor systems …
Cognitive Model: expert component of intelligent tutors that models how students solve problems
If goal is solve a(bx+c) = dThen rewrite as abx + ac = d
If goal is solve a(bx+c) = dThen rewrite as abx + c = d
If goal is solve a(bx+c) = dThen rewrite as bx+c = d/a
Model Tracing: Follows student through their individual approach to a problem -> context-sensitive instruction
3(2x - 5) = 9
6x - 15 = 9 2x - 5 = 3 6x - 5 = 9
Cognitive Model drives behavior of intelligent tutor systems …
Cognitive Model: expert component of intelligent tutors that models how students solve problems
If goal is solve a(bx+c) = dThen rewrite as abx + ac = d
If goal is solve a(bx+c) = dThen rewrite as abx + c = d
Model Tracing: Follows student through their individual approach to a problem -> context-sensitive instruction
Hint message: “Distribute a across the parentheses.”
Bug message: “You need tomultiply c by a also.”
Knowledge Tracing: Assesses student's knowledge growth -> individualized activity selection and pacing
Known? = 85% chance Known? = 45%
Cognitive Modeling Challenge
Problem: Intelligent Tutoring Systems depend on Cognitive Model, which is hard to get right Hard to program, but more importantly … A high quality cognitive model requires a deep
understanding of student thinking Cognitive models created by intuition are often
wrong (e.g., Koedinger & Nathan, 2004)
Significance of improving a cognitive model
A better cognitive model means: better feedback & hints (model tracing) better problem selection & pacing (knowledge
tracing) Making cognitive models better advances
basic cognitive science
How can we use student data to build better cognitive models?
Cognitive Task Analysis methods Think alouds, Difficulty Factors Assessment
General lecture Tuesday Peer collaboration dialog analysis
TagHelper track Newer:
Data mining of student interactions with on-line tutors
Back to DataShop to illustrate
Use log data to test alternative knowledge representations
Which “knowledge component” analysis is correct is an empirical question!
Log data from tutors provides data to compare different KC analyses Find which “germ” accounts for student learning
behaviors
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Not a smooth learning curve -> this knowledge component model is wrong. Does not capture genuine student difficulties.
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This more specific knowledge component (KC) model (2 KCs) is also wrong -- still no smooth drop in error rate.
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Ah! Now we are getting a smooth learning curve. This even more specific decomposition (12 KCs) better tracks the nature of student difficulties & transfer for one problem situation to another.
Overview
Motivation for data mining Better understanding of students =>
better instructional design Exploratory Data Analysis
Demo: DataShop, Excel Learning curves & Learning Factors Analysis Example project from last summer
Next
Example project from 2006
Rafferty (Stanford) & Yudelson (U Pitt) Analyzed a data set from Geometry Applied Learning Factors Analysis (LFA) Driving questions:
Are students learning at the same rate as assumed in prior LFA models?
Do we need different cognitive models (KC models) to account for low-achieving vs. high-achieving students?
Rafferty & Yudelson Results 1
Different student learning rates?
Yes
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Rafferty & Yudelson Results 2 Is it “faster” learning or “different” learning?
Fit with a more compact model is better for low pre for high learn
Students with an apparent faster learning rate are learning a more “compact”, general and transferable domain model
(Became basis of Anna Rafferty’s masters thesis)
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Data Mining-Data Shop Offerings TomorrowLectures in 3501 Newell-Simon Hall, activities here (Wean 5202)
1. Educational data mining overview & introduction to using the DataShop Follow-up activities:
Exercise in using DataShop for exploratory data analysis Use tutor/course that generated target data set. Begin data export,
data scrubbing, exploratory data analysis
2. Learning from learning curves: Item Response Theory, Learning Factors Analysis
3. Other data mining techniques: Learning decomposition, causal models with Tetrad
Define metrics to address driving question, begin analysis
Questions?
What’s next?
Tomorrow: Do you know which offerings you will go to
tomorrow? Any conflicts -- two you want to go to that are at
the same time?
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