{"pk":24179,"title":"Data-driven cognitive skills with an application in personalized education","subtitle":null,"abstract":"How can we explain that people are capable of performing new tasks with no or little instruction? Earlier work has proposed that new tasks can be acquired by a rapid composition of cognitive skills, and implemented this in the ACT-R and PRIMs cognitive architectures. Here, we discuss a possible application of rapid composition in building tutoring systems. The goal is to identify underlying skills through unsupervised machine learning from a dataset of arithmetic learning for students in a Dutch vocational program. The resulting skill graph is used as a basis for a tutoring system. The results show evidence for predictive power of the system and tentative evidence of a learning benefit compared to control groups.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Psychology; Cognitive architectures; Tutoring; Computational Modeling"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/78j76071","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Niels","middle_name":"","last_name":"Taatgen","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Groningen","department":""},{"first_name":"Corné","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hoekstra","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Groningen","department":""},{"first_name":"Jori","middle_name":"","last_name":"Blankestijn","name_suffix":"","institution":"MemoryLab","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2024-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24179/galley/13775/download/"},{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24179/galley/21055/download/"}]}