Open Learner Models for Multi-activity Educational Systems

In recent years, there has been an increasing trend in the use of student-centred approaches within educational systems that engage students in various higher-order learning activities such as creating resources, creating solutions, rating the quality of resources, and giving feedback. In response to this trend, this paper proposes an interpretable and open learner model called MA-Elo that capture an abstract representation of a student’s knowledge state based on their engagement with multiple types of learning activities. We apply MA-Elo to three data sets obtained from an educational system supporting multiple student activities. Results indicate that the proposed approach can provide a higher predictive performance compared with baseline and some state-of-the-art learner models.