Deep learning for the detection of acquired and non-acquired skills in students' algorithmic assessments

Floran Carvalho

FEMTO-ST DISC Institute, Univ. Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, 16 route de Gray, F-25030 Besançon Cedex, France.

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8671-9830

Julien Henriet

FEMTO-ST DISC Institute, Univ. Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, 16 route de Gray, F-25030 Besançon Cedex, France.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7671-4574

Francoise Greffier

ELLIADD (EA 4661), Univ. Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, 30-32 rue Megevand CS 81807, F-25030 Besançon Cedex, France.

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1285-5842

Marie-Laure Betbeder

FEMTO-ST DISC Institute, Univ. Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, 16 route de Gray, F-25030 Besançon Cedex, France.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8103-4098

Dana Leon-Henri

ELLIADD (EA 4661), Univ. Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, 30-32 rue Megevand CS 81807, F-25030 Besançon Cedex, France.

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6196-6173

DOI: https://doi.org/10.20448/jeelr.v10i2.4449

Keywords: Algorithmic learning, Deep learning, Personalized learning, Student exercise analysis, Text classification, Natural language processing.


Abstract

This research is part of the Artificial Intelligence Virtual Trainer (AI-VT) project which aims to create a system that can identify the user's skills from a text by means of machine learning. AI-VT is a case-based reasoning learning support system can generate customized exercise lists that are specially adapted to user needs. To attain this outcome, the relevance of the first proposed exercise must be optimized to assist the system in creating personalized user profiles. To solve this problem, this project was designed to include a preliminary testing phase. As a generic tool, AI-VT was designed to be adapted to any field of learning. The most recent application of AI-VT was in the field of computer science specifically in the context of the fundamentals of algorithmic learning. AI-VT can and will also be useful in other disciplines. Developed in Python with the Keras API and the Tensorflow framework, this artificial intelligence-based tool encompasses a supervised learning environment, multi-label text classification techniques and deep neural networks. This paper presents and compares the performance levels of the different models tested on two different data sets in the context of computer programming and algorithms.

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