Behavioural cloning of teachers for automatic homework selection
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Peer-reviewed
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Authors
Moore, R
Caines, Andrew https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9647-4902
Rice, Andrew https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4677-8032
Buttery, P
Abstract
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019. We describe a machine-learning system for supporting teachers through the selection of homework assignments. Our system uses behavioural cloning of teacher activity to generate personalised homework assignments for students. Classroom use is then supported through additional mechanisms to combine these predictions into group assignments. We train and evaluate our system against 50,065 homework assignments collected over two years by the Isaac Physics platform. We use baseline policies incorporating expert curriculum knowledge for evaluation and find that our technique improves on the strongest baseline policy by 18.5% in Year 1 and by 13.3% in Year 2.
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Keywords
Homework selection, Behavioural cloning, Deep learning
Journal Title
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Conference Name
20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education
Journal ISSN
0302-9743
1611-3349
1611-3349
Volume Title
11625 LNAI
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
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Sponsorship
Cambridge Assessment