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Blending machine learning and learning sciences with Khan Academy data
Pardos, Z., & Farrar, S. (2018). Distributed representations of misconceptions. Presented at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences, London. http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~zp/papers/ICLS_distributed_misconceptions.pdfPDF also hosted here.
#MTBoS Can partial understandings be revealed in MC @khanacademy Qs?
— Scott Farrar (@farrarscott) June 28, 2018
We used #word2vec to group question-answers that appeared in similar student response patterns, perhaps revealing student idea throughlines.
Just presented at #icls2018
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On digital manipulatives
Farrar, Khoe, Matuschak (2017) Numbers at play: dynamic toys make the invisible visible. https://www.khanacademy.org/research/reports/cantor
Our (w/ @mayli @andy_matuschak) new (interactive!) research report on digital manipulatives!
— Scott Farrar (@farrarscott) September 1, 2017
Read & play! ?? https://t.co/prOBixBWb0#MTBoS pic.twitter.com/kyMS8iUCvl
More Khan Academy Work
https://www.khanacademy.org/research