Education Sciences (Sep 2022)

Adaptive Knowledge Control in Digital Learning as a Factor in Improving the Quality of Education

  • Irina Bystrenina,
  • Petr Nikitin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12100638
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 10
p. 638

Abstract

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The quality of knowledge is the most important task of the learning system at any level and stage of education. The COVID-19 pandemic has made its own adjustments to the process of organizing education, requiring the transition from traditional to distance learning as soon as possible. In the new conditions, the use of adaptive knowledge control has become relevant, taking into account the individual level of knowledge of the trainees. The study is devoted to the analysis of the features of adaptive testing, the conditions of application and the possibilities of web technologies for its organization. The article presents the results of a study aimed at organizing and conducting adaptive knowledge control as one of the means of implementing an individual learning trajectory. The study presents algorithms for constructing an individual trajectory of adaptive testing for each user. The analysis of web technologies and learning management systems that are currently used in terms of their capabilities for the implementation of the adaptive learning module is carried out. An adaptive testing module has been developed for implementation into the LMS Moodle learning management system, built taking into account the modular organization of the system. The construction of the module is based on a Markov random process with discrete states, continuous and discrete time, which makes it possible to implement a condition for completing testing with the function of viewing detailed statistics of its passage. The problem of developing and implementing an adaptive testing module in an online learning system is considered. The results of experimental work confirming the effectiveness of the implementation of the adaptive testing module are presented. The study of technology by future teachers and its application in practice will contribute to an increasingly widespread implementation in practical activities.

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