Student Modeling and Analysis in Adaptive Instructional Systems

There is a growing interest in developing and implementing adaptive instructional systems to improve, automate, and personalize student education. A necessary part of any such adaptive instructional system is a student model used to predict or analyze learner behavior and inform adaptation. To help...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jing Liang, Ryan Hare, Tianyu Chang, Fangli Xu, Ying Tang, Fei-Yue Wang, Shimeng Peng, Mingyu Lei
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2022-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
Subjects:
Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9784853/
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1849223131298791424
author Jing Liang
Ryan Hare
Tianyu Chang
Fangli Xu
Ying Tang
Fei-Yue Wang
Shimeng Peng
Mingyu Lei
author_facet Jing Liang
Ryan Hare
Tianyu Chang
Fangli Xu
Ying Tang
Fei-Yue Wang
Shimeng Peng
Mingyu Lei
author_sort Jing Liang
collection DOAJ
description There is a growing interest in developing and implementing adaptive instructional systems to improve, automate, and personalize student education. A necessary part of any such adaptive instructional system is a student model used to predict or analyze learner behavior and inform adaptation. To help inform researchers in this area, this paper presents a state-of-the-art review of 11 years of research (2010-2021) in student modeling, focusing on learner characteristics, learning indicators, and foundational aspects of dissimilar models. We mainly emphasize increased prediction accuracy when using multidimensional learner data to create multimodal models in real-world adaptive instructional systems. In addition, we discuss challenges inherent in real-world multimodal modeling, such as uncontrolled data collection environments leading to noisy data and data sync issues. Finally, we reinforce our findings and conclusions through an industry case study of an adaptive instructional system. In our study, we verify that adding multiple data modalities increases our model prediction accuracy from 53.3% to 69%. At the same time, the challenges encountered with our real-world case study, including uncontrolled data collection environment with inevitably noisy data, calls for synchronization and noise control strategies for data quality and usability.
format Article
id doaj-art-8970afeae11e48a0b32f9a0bdb4e7f20
institution Kabale University
issn 2169-3536
language English
publishDate 2022-01-01
publisher IEEE
record_format Article
series IEEE Access
spelling doaj-art-8970afeae11e48a0b32f9a0bdb4e7f202025-08-25T23:00:27ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362022-01-0110593595937210.1109/ACCESS.2022.31787449784853Student Modeling and Analysis in Adaptive Instructional SystemsJing Liang0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9145-8276Ryan Hare1Tianyu Chang2Fangli Xu3Ying Tang4https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6064-1908Fei-Yue Wang5https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9185-3989Shimeng Peng6Mingyu Lei7Macao Institute of Systems Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao, ChinaDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, USATeachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, USASquirrel AI Learning by Yixue Education Inc., Highland Park, NJ, USADepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, USAState Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems, Inst. of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, ChinaDepartment of Intelligent Systems, Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University, Nagoya, JapanChina Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Beijing, ChinaThere is a growing interest in developing and implementing adaptive instructional systems to improve, automate, and personalize student education. A necessary part of any such adaptive instructional system is a student model used to predict or analyze learner behavior and inform adaptation. To help inform researchers in this area, this paper presents a state-of-the-art review of 11 years of research (2010-2021) in student modeling, focusing on learner characteristics, learning indicators, and foundational aspects of dissimilar models. We mainly emphasize increased prediction accuracy when using multidimensional learner data to create multimodal models in real-world adaptive instructional systems. In addition, we discuss challenges inherent in real-world multimodal modeling, such as uncontrolled data collection environments leading to noisy data and data sync issues. Finally, we reinforce our findings and conclusions through an industry case study of an adaptive instructional system. In our study, we verify that adding multiple data modalities increases our model prediction accuracy from 53.3% to 69%. At the same time, the challenges encountered with our real-world case study, including uncontrolled data collection environment with inevitably noisy data, calls for synchronization and noise control strategies for data quality and usability.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9784853/Adaptive instructional systemsstudent modelingmultimodal learning analytics
spellingShingle Jing Liang
Ryan Hare
Tianyu Chang
Fangli Xu
Ying Tang
Fei-Yue Wang
Shimeng Peng
Mingyu Lei
Student Modeling and Analysis in Adaptive Instructional Systems
IEEE Access
Adaptive instructional systems
student modeling
multimodal learning analytics
title Student Modeling and Analysis in Adaptive Instructional Systems
title_full Student Modeling and Analysis in Adaptive Instructional Systems
title_fullStr Student Modeling and Analysis in Adaptive Instructional Systems
title_full_unstemmed Student Modeling and Analysis in Adaptive Instructional Systems
title_short Student Modeling and Analysis in Adaptive Instructional Systems
title_sort student modeling and analysis in adaptive instructional systems
topic Adaptive instructional systems
student modeling
multimodal learning analytics
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9784853/
work_keys_str_mv AT jingliang studentmodelingandanalysisinadaptiveinstructionalsystems
AT ryanhare studentmodelingandanalysisinadaptiveinstructionalsystems
AT tianyuchang studentmodelingandanalysisinadaptiveinstructionalsystems
AT fanglixu studentmodelingandanalysisinadaptiveinstructionalsystems
AT yingtang studentmodelingandanalysisinadaptiveinstructionalsystems
AT feiyuewang studentmodelingandanalysisinadaptiveinstructionalsystems
AT shimengpeng studentmodelingandanalysisinadaptiveinstructionalsystems
AT mingyulei studentmodelingandanalysisinadaptiveinstructionalsystems