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References: Learner Modeling and Advanced Assessment

  1. Student model - Wikipedia - Covers learner/student modeling in intelligent tutoring systems, directly underlying this chapter's Learner Model and Knowledge State sections.

  2. Knowledge space theory - Wikipedia - Formalizes the mathematical structure of possible knowledge states this chapter's Knowledge State section applies to one specific learner's position within that space.

  3. Bayesian knowledge tracing - Wikipedia - Describes a widely used algorithm for estimating per-skill mastery probability from learner responses, directly relevant background for this chapter's Knowledge Component and Mastery State sections.

  4. Mastery learning - Wikipedia - Defines mastery as a demonstrated threshold of competence, the standard this chapter's Mastery State and Mastery Threshold sections formalize into learner-model data fields.

  5. Formative assessment - Wikipedia - Explains ongoing, diagnostic-style assessment used to guide instruction, closely related to this chapter's Diagnostic Assessment section though framed here specifically as a knowledge-state-determining tool.

  6. Summative assessment - Wikipedia - Defines summative assessment as evaluation after instruction, directly underlying this chapter's Summative Assessment section and its contrast with diagnostic assessment.

  7. Competency-based learning - Wikipedia - Covers how competencies map to demonstrable skills, the educational framework this chapter's Competency Model section turns into a learning-graph-linked data structure.

  8. Intelligent tutoring system - Wikipedia - Surveys how automated systems use learner models to personalize instruction, the broader field this chapter's Readiness Estimation and Personalized Sequencing sections draw their design pattern from.

  9. Adaptive learning - Wikipedia - Covers adaptive sequencing systems generally, the umbrella concept Chapter 16 introduced and this chapter's Learning Path Constraint and Personalized Sequencing sections make fully computable.

  10. Building Intelligent Interactive Tutors - Beverly Park Woolf - Morgan Kaufmann - Covers student modeling, knowledge tracing, and adaptive sequencing design in depth, the primary book-length reference underlying this chapter's full learner-modeling vocabulary.