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Modeling Player Knowledge in a Parallel Programming Educational Game


Abstract:

This article focuses on tracing player knowledge in educational games. Specifically, given a set of concepts or skills required to master a game, the goal is to estimate ...Show More

Abstract:

This article focuses on tracing player knowledge in educational games. Specifically, given a set of concepts or skills required to master a game, the goal is to estimate the likelihood with which the current player has mastery of each of those concepts or skills. The main contribution of the work is an approach that integrates machine learning and domain knowledge rules to find when the player applied a certain skill and either succeeded or failed. This is then given as input to a standard knowledge tracing module (such as those from intelligent tutoring systems) to perform knowledge tracing. We evaluate our approach in the context of an educational game called Parallel to teach parallel and concurrent programming with data collected from real users, showing our approach can predict students skills with a low mean-squared error. We also provide results from deployment of our system in a classroom environment.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Games ( Volume: 14, Issue: 1, March 2022)
Page(s): 64 - 75
Date of Publication: 12 November 2020

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