The Rapid Calculation Method of DINA Model for Large Scale Cognitive Diagnosis[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2018, 46(5): 1047-1055.
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The Rapid Calculation Method of DINA Model for Large Scale Cognitive Diagnosis[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2018, 46(5): 1047-1055. DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0372-2112.2018.05.004.
The Rapid Calculation Method of DINA Model for Large Scale Cognitive Diagnosis
How to assess students' cognitive structure is an important problem in the process of education and teaching.Traditionally
teachers evaluate a student based on their classroom performance and scores
which is lack of efficiency
objectivity
and it is hard to treat anyone equally.To solve this problem
DINA model
which is able to evaluate knowledge proficiency of students
has become a popular Cognitive Diagnosis model with a good interpretation.However
traditional DINA models are all based on small samples.When it comes to large-scale online learning scenario
the calculation will be significantly time-consuming.To address these issues
we first give proof of the convergence of DINA model
and then propose three acceleration methods.To be specific
the first one
called Incremental DINA(I-DINA)
can partition the student data into blocks and iterate through the blocks.Then the second one
Maximum-Entropy DINA(ME-DINA)
can choose and only access the most powerful students.At last
we combine the advantages of these two methods and propose the last model called Incremental Maximum Entropy DINA(IME-DINA).Extensive experiments on both a real-world dataset and simulation data demonstrate that our models can achieve dozens of acceleration without reducing the effectiveness of DINA Model.