Multidimensional Student Skills with Collaborative Filtering

Bergner, Yoav; Rayyan, Saif; Seaton, Daniel T.; Pritchard, David E.

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Multidimensional Student Skills with Collaborative Filtering

written by Yoav Bergner, Saif Rayyan, Daniel T. Seaton, and David E. Pritchard

Despite the fact that a physics course typically culminates in one final grade for the student, many instructors and researchers believe that there are multiple skills that students acquire to achieve mastery. Assessment validation and data analysis in general may thus benefit from extension to multidimensional ability. This paper introduces an approach for model determination and dimensionality analysis using collaborative filtering (CF), which is related to factor analysis and item response theory (IRT). Model selection is guided by machine learning perspectives, seeking to maximize the accuracy in predicting which students will answer which items correctly. We apply the CF to response data for the Mechanics Baseline Test and combine the results with prior analysis using unidimensional IRT.

Physics Education Research Conference 2012
Part of the PER Conference series
Philadelphia, PA: August 1-2, 2012
Volume 1513, Pages 74-77

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DOI:: 10.1063/1.4789655
NSF Number:: 1044294
PACSs:: 01.40.Fk; 01.40.gf; 01.50.Kw
Keywords:: PERC 2012, collaborative filtering, item response theory, testing
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Bergner, Y., Rayyan, S., Seaton, D., & Pritchard, D. (2012, August 1-2). Multidimensional Student Skills with Collaborative Filtering. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2012, Philadelphia, PA. Retrieved April 25, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12666&DocID=3243

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Bergner, Y, S. Rayyan, D. Seaton, and D. Pritchard. "Multidimensional Student Skills with Collaborative Filtering." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2012, Philadelphia, PA, August 1-2, 2012. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12666&DocID=3243 (accessed 25 April 2024).

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Bergner, Yoav, Saif Rayyan, Daniel Seaton, and David E. Pritchard. "Multidimensional Student Skills with Collaborative Filtering." Physics Education Research Conference 2012. Philadelphia, PA: 2012. 74-77 Vol. 1513 of PER Conference. 25 Apr. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12666&DocID=3243>.

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