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48 results for exam prediction

Paper uses nearest neighbor method to predict exam success based on online test trends.

problem Predicting student success/failure in final exams.
method Applied nearest neighbor method to estimate student learning skill from online test trends.
result Improved prediction accuracy for exam success/failure.

A problem faced by many instructors is that of designing exams that accurately assess the abilities of the students. Typically these exams are prepared several days in advance, and generic question scores are used based on rough approximation of the question difficulty and length. For example, for a recent class taught…

2017-12-24abs ↗pdf ↗

The ERI is a new index for measuring exam readiness.

problem Measuring exam readiness in a clear and actionable way.
method The ERI combines six signals derived from practice and mock tests, formalizing axioms for component maps and the composite.
result The ERI is a composite score interpretable and actionable for exam readiness.

Study finds flipped classrooms improve student self-concept, enjoyment, but not exam scores.

problem Evaluating the impact of flipped classrooms on higher education outcomes.
method Double/debiased machine learning (DML) approach to analyze student data.
result No significant positive effects on exam scores, passing rates, or knowledge retention.

We present a novel method for obtaining high-quality, domain-targeted multiple choice questions from crowd workers. Generating these questions can be difficult without trading away originality, relevance or diversity in the answer options. Our method addresses these problems by leveraging a large corpus of domain-speci…

2017-07-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Many radiological studies can reveal the presence of several co-existing abnormalities, each one represented by a distinct visual pattern. In this article we address the problem of learning a distance metric for plain radiographs that captures a notion of "radiological similarity": two chest radiographs are considered …

2017-12-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Recently there has been an increasing interest in methods that deal with multiple outputs. This has been motivated partly by frameworks like multitask learning, multisensor networks or structured output data. From a Gaussian processes perspective, the problem reduces to specifying an appropriate covariance function tha…

2009-11-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Study uses ML and causal analysis to predict student performance factors.

problem Understanding socio-academic and economic factors affecting student performance.
method Employed machine learning techniques and causal analysis on 1,050 student profiles.
result Ridge Regression achieved robust predictions with MAE of 0.12 and MSE of 0.024.

Models predict Alzheimer's Dementia from spontaneous speech with high accuracy.

problem Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's Dementia (AD) through spontaneous speech analysis.
method Compared natural language processing techniques including SVM, GBDT, CRFs, and Transformer-based models.
result Top models achieve 0.81-0.82 test set scores for AD vs controls and 4.58 RMSE for Mental Mini State Exam scores.

Generative adversarial networks have been successfully applied to inpainting in natural images. However, the current state-of-the-art models have not yet been widely adopted in the medical imaging domain. In this paper, we investigate the performance of three recently published deep learning based inpainting models: co…

2018-08-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Breast density classification is an essential part of breast cancer screening. Although a lot of prior work considered this problem as a task for learning algorithms, to our knowledge, all of them used small and not clinically realistic data both for training and evaluation of their models. In this work, we explore the…

2017-11-10abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper presents a machine learning approach to multidimensional item response theory.

problem Modeling and predicting student performance from assessment data.
method Inspired by collaborative filtering, the paper defines a general class of models using penalized joint maximum likelihood (JML) for estimation and cross-validation for model selection.
result The high-dimensional model fit to large and sparse data does not lend itself well to traditional factor interpretation.

Generative adversarial networks reconstruct MRI images without full data.

problem Lack of fully-sampled ground truth data for supervised MRI reconstruction.
method Generative adversarial networks for unsupervised MRI reconstruction.
result Reconstructed images show more anatomical structure than conventional methods.

In this paper, we make an important step towards the black-box machine teaching by considering the cross-space machine teaching, where the teacher and the learner use different feature representations and the teacher can not fully observe the learner's model. In such scenario, we study how the teacher is still able to …

2017-10-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Simplifies decision-making during medical exams with cost-efficient feature acquisition.

problem Guiding physicians during examination acquisition for accurate and efficient diagnosis.
method Dropout at input layer and integrated gradients at test-time for dynamic feature importance.
result More cost- and feature-efficient than prior approaches, achieving higher overall accuracy.

A network removes irrelevant structures from chest radiographs for better analysis.

problem Clutter in chest radiographs hinders visual inspection and analysis.
method Fully Convolutional Network to suppress undesired visual structure.
result Improved classifier performance with limited training data.

We expand the item response theory to study the case of "cheating students" for a set of exams, trying to detect them by applying a greedy algorithm of inference. This extended model is closely related to the Boltzmann machine learning. In this paper we aim to infer the correct biases and interactions of our model by c…

2014-10-14abs ↗pdf ↗

New β3β^3-IRT model improves test performance and assesses classifier quality.

problem Improving test performance and assessing classifier quality.
method Proposes β3β^3-IRT model to model continuous responses and assess latent abilities.
result The β3β^3-IRT model outperforms standard models on various datasets and provides a new metric for classifier evaluation.

REALFIN benchmarks financial reasoning by removing implicit assumptions, revealing model weaknesses.

problem Models struggle when implicit assumptions are missing, leading to incorrect answers.
method Developed a bilingual benchmark that systematically removes essential premises from financial questions.
result General-purpose models over-commit, while finance-specialized models fail to identify missing premises.

Item response theory (IRT) models for categorical response data are widely used in the analysis of educational data, computerized adaptive testing, and psychological surveys. However, most IRT models rely on both the assumption that categories are strictly ordered and the assumption that this ordering is known a priori…

2015-01-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Compressed sensing improves MRI scans with data-driven learning.

problem Challenges in applying compressed sensing from research to clinical practice.
method Data-driven learning to address challenges of hand-crafted priors, tuning parameters, and long reconstruction times.
result Compressed sensing can have greater clinical impact with data-driven learning.