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Record W2746567044 · doi:10.13034/jsst.v10i1.181

The Application of Machine Learning to Education

2017· article· en· W2746567044 on OpenAlex

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Student Science and Technology · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicOnline Learning and Analytics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRanking (information retrieval)Test (biology)Mathematics educationQuality (philosophy)Field (mathematics)AccountabilityComputer scienceStandardized testGovernment (linguistics)Artificial intelligenceMachine learningMathematics

Abstract

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The field of education is constantly seeking more innovative and effective methods of teaching foundational knowledge to students. Organizations in both secondary and post-secondary education groups offer Physics Education Groups that try to better teach fundamental physics concepts to students in both university and high school. There are also government agencies such as the Educational Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) in Ontario, which provides standardized tests to students. Although these standardized tests do not test the full capabilities and thought processes of students, they still provide insights into how students learn. Data from standardized EQAO tests can be analyzed to obtain crucial information about how to improve education standards by showing where resources can be allocated more effectively. One of the most powerful tools that can be used to analyze data is machine learning, which can find patterns and correlations in data that the human eye cannot see. This experiment used the linear regression algorithm to find correlations in data obtained from grade 9 EQAO mathematics tests from 50 schools in Ontario. The algorithm analyzed how students with varying scores answered a multiple-choice questionnaire at the end of the exam, which included statements such as “I am able to answer difficult mathematics questions.” Based on the variables output from the machine learning algorithm, the importance of each statement was then ranked; this ranking can then lead to insights into how students learn, and how to better utilize resources. This experiment has shown that an elementary application of machine learning can lead to valuable insights into student learning and that more should be done to better analyze the abundant data in the education field. Le domaine de l’éducation recherche continuellement des méthodes innovatrices et efficaces pour l’enseignement de connaissances fondamentales aux étudiants. Les organisations de niveau secondaire et post-secondaire offrent des groupes d’éducation en physique qui essaient d’améliorer l’enseignement des concepts fondamentaux en physique aux étudiants à l’université ainsi qu’au secondaire. Il y a également des agences gouvernementales telles que l’Office de la qualité et de la responsabilité en éducation (OQRE) en Ontario, qui offre des tests standardisés aux étudiants. Bien que ces tests standardisés n’évaluent pas la pleine capacité et le processus de réflexion des élèves, ils offrent tout de même un aperçu des méthodes d’apprentissage. Les données des tests standardisés de l’OQRE peuvent être analysés afin d’obtenir des renseignements essentiels quant à la façon d’améliorer les normes d’éducation en démontrant où les ressources peuvent être attribuées plus efficacement. Un des outils les plus puissants qui peut être utilisé pour analyser les données est le l’apprentissage automatique, ce qui peut trouver des tendances et des corrélations à travers les données que l’œil humain ne peut percevoir. Cette expérience a utilisé l’algorithme à régression linéaire afin de trouver des corrélations dans les données obtenues des tests de mathématique de l’OQRE pour la mième année dans 50 écoles en Ontario. L’algorithme a analysé comment les étudiants possédant un résultat différent ont répondu à un questionnaire de questions à choix multiples à la fin de l’examen incluant des énoncés tels que « Je suis en mesure de répondre à des questions mathématiques dif ciles. » Selon les variables produits par l’algorithme d’apprentissage automatique, l’importance de chaque énoncé fut classée; ce classement peut ainsi mener à une compréhension envers l’apprentissage de l’étudiant, et comment maximiser les ressources. Cette expérience a démontré qu’une application élémentaire de l’apprentissage automatique peut mener à de précieux renseignements sur l’apprentissage des étudiants et que plus d’efforts doivent être accomplis afin de faciliter l’analyse des nombreuses données retrouvées dans le domaine de l’éducation.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.746
Threshold uncertainty score0.506

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0020.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.341
Teacher spread0.332 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it