Control Theory Forecasts of Optimal Training Dosage to Facilitate Children's Arithmetic Learning in a Digital Educational Application.

ABSTRACT: Education can be viewed as a control theory problem in which students seek ongoing exogenous input-either through traditional classroom teaching or other alternative training resources-to minimize the discrepancies between their actual and target (reference) performance levels. Using illustrative data from [Formula: see text] Dutch elementary school students as measured using the Math Garden, a web-based computer adaptive practice and monitoring system, we simulate and evaluate the outcomes of using off-line and finite memory linear quadratic controllers with constraintsto forecast students' optimal training durations. By integrating population standards with each student's own latent change information, we demonstrate that adoption of the control theory-guided, person- and time-specific t

SUBMITTER: Chow SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12762466 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature