Tracing Mathematical Proficiency Through Problem-Solving Processes (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Knowledge Tracing (KT) models a learner's evolving knowledge state over time, but lacks the rich information embedded in students' problem-solving processes. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that uses a teacher-student-teacher pipeline to extract students’ Mathematical Proficiency (MP) as intermediate representation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves the prediction performance of existing KT methods and provides interpretable explanations by explicitly modeling students’ mathematical proficiency. |
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