FST Graduate Research Topic

Research Topic: Machine Learning Algorithms for Adaptive Assessments and Learning
Suggested By: Oscar Lin
Last Update: May 14th, 2025

Online education is gaining popularity. It has potential to implement adaptive learning to meet the needs of students with different needs, strengths, and weaknesses. The goal of this research is to explore how to use machine learning (ML) to improve the efficiency and accuracy of diagnostic or formative assessment in online learning environments and enable adaptive learning. This research project will design or use ML algorithms (such as  Multi-armed bandit algorithms) and deploy them in an experimental website called Adaptive QuizMASter to be used by the students in online courses of Athabasca University.