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1Education College of Minjiang University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China.
Frontiers in Psychology
|December 8, 2025
Summary
This study introduces a new hierarchical reinforcement learning framework for personalized special education. It significantly improves strategy accuracy and appropriateness for diverse learners compared to traditional methods.
Area of Science:
- Artificial Intelligence in Education
- Special Education Technology
- Machine Learning for Learning Analytics
Background:
- Traditional education systems struggle to meet diverse learner needs.
- Existing personalized learning systems face challenges in processing complex behavioral data and adapting strategies dynamically.
- Interpretability and real-world applicability remain significant hurdles for current adaptive learning technologies.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop an interpretable, data-driven personalized learning support system for special education.
- To address limitations in processing multidimensional behavioral data and dynamic strategy adaptation.
- To establish a new standard for adaptive learning technologies in special education.
Main Methods:
- A three-module hierarchical reinforcement learning framework was proposed.
- Behavioral Feature Extractor (BFE) utilized dilated convolutions and attention mechanisms for temporal pattern recognition.
- Adaptive Policy Selector (APS) employed hierarchical deep Q-network (DQN) for mapping features to pedagogical strategies, enhanced by feedback optimization and pedagogical importance sampling.
Main Results:
- The framework achieved 89% overall strategy accuracy, surpassing flat DQN (78%).
- Demonstrated 85% appropriateness for special education cases, a 22% improvement over ablated versions.
- Showcased 5.7x better rare event coverage and 3.4x sample efficiency compared to baselines.
Conclusions:
- The proposed framework effectively addresses key challenges in adaptive learning for special education.
- It establishes a new standard for interpretable, data-driven personalized education systems.
- Significant improvements in accuracy, appropriateness, and efficiency were demonstrated on the ECLS-K dataset.
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