论文标题
诊断问题的说明和指南:神经2020教育挑战
Instructions and Guide for Diagnostic Questions: The NeurIPS 2020 Education Challenge
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论文摘要
数字技术在教育中越来越普遍,使全世界的学生都能获得个性化的高质量教育资源。重要的是,这些资源包括诊断问题:学生对这些问题的答案揭示了有关学生可能存在的误解的特定性质的关键信息。分析来自学生与这些诊断问题的互动所引起的大量数据可以帮助我们更准确地了解学生的学习状态,从而使我们能够自动化学习课程建议。在这场比赛中,参与者将专注于这些多项选择诊断问题的学生的答案记录,目的是1)准确预测学生提供的答案; 2)准确预测哪些问题具有高质量; 3)为每个学生确定一个个性化的问题顺序,以最能预测学生的答案。这些任务紧密地模仿了现实世界中的教育平台的目标,并高度代表了当今面临的教育挑战。我们提供了超过2000万个学生回答数学问题的示例,EEDI是一个领先的教育平台,成千上万的学生每天都在全球范围内互动。这项比赛的参与者有机会对全球数百万学生的个性化教育质量产生持久的现实影响。
Digital technologies are becoming increasingly prevalent in education, enabling personalized, high quality education resources to be accessible by students across the world. Importantly, among these resources are diagnostic questions: the answers that the students give to these questions reveal key information about the specific nature of misconceptions that the students may hold. Analyzing the massive quantities of data stemming from students' interactions with these diagnostic questions can help us more accurately understand the students' learning status and thus allow us to automate learning curriculum recommendations. In this competition, participants will focus on the students' answer records to these multiple-choice diagnostic questions, with the aim of 1) accurately predicting which answers the students provide; 2) accurately predicting which questions have high quality; and 3) determining a personalized sequence of questions for each student that best predicts the student's answers. These tasks closely mimic the goals of a real-world educational platform and are highly representative of the educational challenges faced today. We provide over 20 million examples of students' answers to mathematics questions from Eedi, a leading educational platform which thousands of students interact with daily around the globe. Participants to this competition have a chance to make a lasting, real-world impact on the quality of personalized education for millions of students across the world.