Knowledge Tracing for Complex Training Applications: Beyond Bayesian Mastery Estimates
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چکیده
Effective training for military personnel is a top priority to ensure preparedness for mission operations. Increasingly, there is a desire to provide training in a manner that takes advantage of advances in cognitive science. The goal is to provide simulation-based training that leverages cognitive agents in several ways both to increase training effectiveness and also to reduce the costs of providing such training. One application of cognitive agents is that they can be used to help assess and track the acquisition of mission-relevant skills through a process called knowledge tracing [1].
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