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all students for a given set of n questions. To avoid of local minima, each hill-climbing | all students for a given set of n questions. To avoid of local minima, each hill-climbing | ||
search is seeded with different random Q-matrices and the best of these is kept. | search is seeded with different random Q-matrices and the best of these is kept. | ||
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+ | When forming a correlation matrix, we lose individual student data in favor of calculating average relationships between questions. The q-matrix method is optimized to assign each student the most appropriate knowledge state, using all available response data for each student. | ||