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Revision as of 20:14, 8 April 2009

Asymptotic knowledge assessment is CUMULATE's legacy user modeling algorithm for computing user knowledge with respect to problem-solving.

Computation

The formula below is used to update the knowledge levels of concepts (c) addressed in a problem (p). This formula reflects the following principles.

  • there are several domain concepts (knowledge items, rules, productions) involved in solving a problem; the knowledge of each of them is updated proportionally to the others
  • knowledge is updated only upon correct user answers, there is no penalty for errors
  • solving a problem correctly multiple times will result in diminishing update (growth) of the knowledge level of the concepts as the number of successes grows

CUMULATE asymptotic knowledge assessment.png, where

  • Ko - is the starting level of knowledge (here we always start from 0)
  • res - result of user action (0 -error, 1 - correct);
  • Wc,p - is a weight of concept c in problem p
  • ΣWc,p - is the sum of weights of all concepts in problem p
  • succattp - is a number of successful solutions to problem p prior to current attempt

Examples

Below is a graph of concept's knowledge level growth vs. number of successful attempts to apply it in a problem. Every time the concept is applied correctly in a new problem.

CUMULATE asymptotic knowledge assessment - knowledge growth.png (of knowledge level vs.|number of successful attempts| alternatively via Google Chart API)