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Area of Science:

  • Educational Technology
  • Artificial Intelligence in Education
  • Machine Learning for Learning

Background:

  • Online homework and question generation are increasingly common in education.
  • Existing learning-to-rank (LTR) methods face challenges in personalizing question ranking due to latent student knowledge, related knowledge points across different quizzes, and lack of historical performance consideration.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose KFRank, a novel knowledge-fusion ranking model based on reinforcement learning.
  • To address the limitations of current ranking models by incorporating student assignment history and quiz knowledge point relevance.
  • To improve the effectiveness of personalized online homework systems.

Main Methods:

  • Developed KFRank, a knowledge-fusion ranking model utilizing reinforcement learning.
  • Integrated student assignment history, reorganized by knowledge points, to calculate effective ranking features.
  • Employed a similarity estimator for historical question selection and an attention neural network for knowledge fusion and state updates.
  • Utilized a Markov decision process-based ranking algorithm for parameter optimization.

Main Results:

  • KFRank demonstrated superior performance compared to state-of-the-art ranking models (ListNET, LambdaMART) and reinforcement learning methods (MDPRank) on a year-long real-life dataset.
  • The model showed significant improvements in top-k nDCG values, particularly for average and weak students.
  • Effectively addressed challenges in predicting the behavior of students with lower academic abilities.

Conclusions:

  • KFRank offers an effective approach to personalized question ranking in online educational settings.
  • The knowledge-fusion strategy and reinforcement learning framework enhance the ability to cater to diverse student needs and learning histories.
  • The findings suggest a promising direction for developing more adaptive and supportive e-learning platforms.