Abstract
Machine learning-based modeling technology has recently become a powerful technique and tool for developing models for explaining, predicting, and describing system/human behaviors. In developing intelligent education systems or technologies, some research has focused on applying unique machine learning algorithms to build the ad-hoc student models for specific educational systems. However, systematically developing the data-driven student models from the educational data collected over prior educational experiences remains a challenge. We proposed a systematic and comprehensive machine learning-based modeling methodology to develop high-performance predictive student models from the historical educational data to address this issue. This methodology addresses the fundamental modeling issues, from data processing, to modeling, to model deployment. The said methodology can help developing student models for intelligent educational systems. After a detailed description of the proposed machine learning-based methodology, we introduce its application to an intelligent navigation tutoring system. Using the historical data collected in intelligent navigation tutoring systems, we conduct large-scale experiments to build the student models for training systems. The preliminary results proved that the proposed methodology is useful and feasible in developing the high-performance models for various intelligent education systems.
Intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) are computer-aided systems that can teach students or train trainees automatically. Psychologists and computer scientists have explored them for over 50 years. With the rapid application of artificial intelligence (AI) such as machine learning, agent, and reasoning techniques (case-based reasoning) to the ITSs, nowadays, it can teach complex cognitive skills such as computer programming, geometry, and high school physics (Kulik & Fletcher 2016). Technically, ITSs are computer programs that aim to provide immediate and customized instruction or feedback to learners by using computational models based on research in artificial intelligence and cognitive science (Grgić et al., 2019). To date, ITSs have been widely applied in a variety of education areas and subjects and benefited hundreds of thousands of students or learners around the world (Alkhatlan & Kalita, 2018; Mohamed & Lamia, 2018; Rau et al., 2015; Whitehill & Movellan, 2018).
In general, most ITSs utilize AI techniques (such as rule-based reasoning and model-based reasoning) to provide intelligent tutors that know what they teach, whom they teach, and how to teach. It consists of four main components: the domain model, the student model, the tutor model, and the user interface model (Alkhatlan & Kalita, 2018). The domain model is developed to store domain knowledge; the student model is used to store the current state of an individual student in order to choose a suitable new problem for the student; the tutor model stores pedagogical knowledge and makes decisions about when and how to intervene; finally, the user interface model gives access to the domain knowledge elements.
The most important part should be the student model. The student model should be able to model the student's behaviors and skills so that the ITS can infer the student's performance and abilities based on his/her educational background and knowledge level. Therefore, a key factor for making ITSs successful is to develop more robust and accurate models of how students learn and can integrate them into ITSs to achieve higher learning gains. For this purpose, we are motivated to explore a useful modeling approach for building the high-performance student models. It is desirable that the developed modeling process or methods for student modeling shall incorporate static and dynamic characteristics in learning process. Static characteristics include student profile information, and dynamic characteristics reflect the student learning behaviors and attention during the interaction with the systems. This work investigates the feasibility of applying machine learning to student modeling as a systematic way of understanding student success by data. The paper reports the developed machine learning-based modeling methodologies and some preliminary experimental results obtained from a case study, intelligent navigation tutoring systems.
Following this Section, the paper provides a quick literature review. Section 3 highlights the research questions or problems to be solved along with the main contributions. Section 4 introduces the proposed machine learning-based modeling methodology in detail. Section 5 presents a case study, student modeling for an intelligent navigation tutoring system, and some preliminary results. Section 6 discusses the results and future directions. The final Section concludes the paper.
Literature Review
The challenge is to find the relevant dynamic characteristics (Chrysafiadi & Virvou, 2013) of an individual student in order to appropriately adapt the learning objectives for each student. Dynamic characteristics include knowledge and skills, errors and misconceptions, learning styles and preferences, affective and cognitive factors, and meta-cognitive factors. Cognitive factors refer to students' cognitive features, for instance, attention, ability to learn, and ability to solve problems and make decisions. Meta-cognitive aspects involve attitude and ability for help-seeking, self-regulation, and self-assessment (Aleven et al., 2006). So far, several approaches have been developed for building student models. These approaches can be summarized as overlay modeling, stereotypes modeling, perturbation modeling, constraint-based modeling, and cognitive theories-based modeling, and so on.
Recently, machine learning(ML)-based or AI-based student modeling technology (Arpaci, 2019, 2020) has become a powerful technique and tool for developing models for explaining, predicting, and describing system/human behaviors (Osoba & Davis, 2019). In the educational data analysis and intelligent education research community, many works focus on developing machine earning-based models for intelligent education systems such as ITS. As Korkmaz and Correia (2019) pointed in their review, most research utilized unique machine learning algorithms such as Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Decision Trees to develop a single model for specific research areas or applications as automation, cognitive process assessment, and prediction. For example, Hooshyar et al. (2019) proposed predicting students' performance with learning difficulties through procrastination behavior based on clustering methods. Sharma Papamitsiou and Giannakos (2019) developed a machine learning-based pipeline as a “grey-box” approach to predicting learners' effortful behavior and performance in adaptive assessment tasks. In the comprehensive survey (Alkhatlan & Kalita, 2018), the authors provide a detailed introduction to these student modeling techniques. However, these approaches are mainly for developing corrective, elaborative, diagnostic, strategic, and evaluative models. This reminds us that we have to pay more attention to predictive student modeling since it is key to ensuring ITS or intelligent education systems succeed.
Existing predictive student modeling is typically performed either to infer a latent construct (such as emotion) or to predict future outcomes (Merceron, 2015). For example, a student model may be developed to predict whether a student is likely to fail a course (Arnold & Pistilli, 2012; Ming & Ming, 2012). The student models developed using 2017 data are used to predict the course learning outcome in 2018 and beyond. However, those predictive student models were developed based on specific domain data and using a unique machine learning algorithm. It is desirable that a systematic and comprehensive methodology can be deployed readily available for guiding to build predictive student models. For this purpose, we proposed to apply a systemic and comprehensive machine learning-based modeling methodology to develop high-performance predictive models from the historical, educational data. Another essential demand for the student modeling methodology comes from our application, intelligent touring navigation training systems (will be presented in the case study). The navigator training is a time-consuming and high-cost mission. To reduce the cost and improve training efficacy, ITS desperately needs to have a powerful and smart learner model for predicting trainees' learning performance. The training course can be appropriately designed for different learners. The goal is to provide an alternative solution to build data-driven student models for ITS instead of building models from prior knowledge or domain theory.
Research Questions
This paper tackles a challenge issue facing us in developing smart student models for intelligent educational systems particularly for ITSs. In this research we propose a machine learning-based methodology for student modeling. With this modeling methodology the high performance student models can be built from the historic educational data. For this purpose the following questions have to be addressed:
How a comprehensive student modeling methodology can guide developers to build data-driven student models as an alternative solution to add value to existing student modeling technologies? How effective the modeling methodology can be if applied to a ITS by building student models from the collected historical data? How do we determine the important features for model inferencing will help practitioners better understand the student model's utility while deploying the built student models in ITSs or other educational systems?
The main contributions of this research are:
A comprehensive machine learning-based methodology is developed for student modeling; The feasibility of the developed modeling methods is demonstrated through a case study: to develop predictive student models for a special ITS, navigation training systems; The remaining challenges and future research directions are discussed.
Machine Learning-Based Student Modeling Methodology
Machine learning-based student modeling develops student models for intelligent education systems by applying machine learning algorithms and data mining techniques. The idea behind this method is to model human behavior or social behavior (Osoba & Davis, 2019). The models are built from the collected historical data (student profile, student behaviors, course object contents, learning environment parameters, learning results) using various machine learning algorithms. The developed high-performance student models (Chrysafiadi & Virvou, 2013) can be used in intelligent education systems to enhance personalized education, teaching/learning efficacy and effectiveness analysis (Baker & Inventado, 2016), and increasing the ability of education support for various AI-aided education systems such as ITSs, game-based learning environment (Alkhatlan & Kalita, 2018). To build such student models, we developed a machine learning-based modeling methodology. With the method, we can build student models to predict learning outcomes and estimate learning performance (in grade). For learning outcome prediction, we cast it as a binary classification problem; for estimation of learning performance, we cast it as a regression problem. We can only collect data on the learning results (pass or fail) and focus on developing classification-based student models for this work. Figure 1 shows the proposed modeling methodology, consisting of five steps: data preprocessing, data engineering, learning algorithm selection, model evaluation, and model deployment.
The Machine Learning Based Methodology for Student Modeling.
Data Preprocessing
The first step to conduct the machine learning-based student modeling, is to get the relevant dataset from “big” historical data. The relevant dataset is “gold” data for modeling. There is a rule of thumb called “garbage in garbage out”, which means that without the right/relevant data, the models trained with the irrelevant data will mislead predictions. In terms of student modeling requirements, we are interested in the data related to student learning behavior and external impact elements such as course contents and environments. In this work, the primary data are student profile, learning behaviors (hardworking, curious about the new knowledge, attention, problem-solving ability, interests in learning subjects, etc.), course object, teaching manner, and environments (for example, the navigating area and regulation described in the case study later).
Data Engineering
Data engineering or so-called data transformation generates more features for augmenting the data quality to build the high-performance models. Usually, there are two strategies: creating new features by using domain knowledge and extracting/learning new features to enhance data quality. Accordingly, we rely on constructive induction to create new powerful features that combine the initial ones. It is possible for feature engineering to perform various data analysis to extract potentially relevant learning behavior characteristics. For instance, in our case study, we add “risk” feature (Kose, 1995), which is computed based on navigation domain knowledge and information of two encountering ships (own ship and target ship). Finally, we apply feature selection (Hall, 2000; Kira & Rendell, 1992) on the augmented data representation to automatically remove correlated or irrelevant features. Recently the deep learning can also be used to learn the features automatically.
After we added new features to enhance the data representation and quality, we have to assign the ground truth for each sample to build student models by applying supervised learning techniques or algorithms. For the classification task, the ground truth is a Label (class value) for each instance in the data set. The best way to do this is to consult the domain expert for each sample's label value. For the regression task (e.g., student learning performance, grade mark), the ground truth is a numeric target variable.
On the other hand, eliminating irrelevant features is as important as adding new features. Because with the increasing of data dimensionality, the amount of data required for training the model also grows exponentially, which will be a challenge in real situations. Therefore we apply feature selection on the augmented data representation to automatically remove correlated or irrelevant features.
Algorithm Selection
Many algorithms are available in the research community for building machine learning-based student models. There is no theory or guideline to help us to select the algorithms to develop the models. This is an empirical method by running large-scale experiments to build several models, then select a suitable model for the deployment or usage. For the classification task, the available algorithms include Instance-Based learning (IBk), Naïve Bayes, SVM, Decision Trees, and Deep Neural Networks such as CNN and RNN. For the regression task, there are also many algorithms available, including classic regression, Random Forest Decision Tree, SVM, and Deep Nets. The regression algorithms are mainly used to develop models for estimating students' learning performance quantitatively. However, these algorithms have to be customized by configuring their parameters carefully to obtain better performance models.
Model Evaluation
As we described above, there could have been many models built from the various algorithms and distinct subset of features during the modeling process. Therefore we need an evaluation method to help to select a suitable model for deployment in education systems. There are many criteria or metrics available for model evaluation in the machine learning community. For the classification task, these evaluation methods or metrics are called generic methods (Yang, 2014), including Accuracy (Error rate), sensitivity (or so-called recall, true positive rate), specificity (or so-called selectivity, true negative rate), precision, ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristics) curve, AUC (Area Under the ROC Curve), ROCCH (ROC Convex Hull), the DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis), etc. For the regression task, the evaluation metrics include the mean absolute error (MAE), the sum of squared error (SSE), the mean squared error (MSE), the root mean squared error (RMSE), and the mean absolute percentage error (MAPE). One of the major concerns for evaluating the trained model's effectiveness is to avoid overfitting by looking at the accuracy and the loss during the training.
Model Deployment
Once we selected the best or suitable model from a set of student models, we need to deploy it into intelligent educational systems for teaching or learning support. In general, model deployment is a type of software engineering problem in implementing predictive student models. With the deployed models, we can conduct a field trial for the ITSs. There are two inevitable tasks in deploying the models into ITS: model auto-updating and contributed feature inspection. To perform the automatic model upgrade in real-time without reprograming the system, we have developed a deployment environment that can automatically configure and replace out-date/out-mode data-driven models.
To monitor the contributed features given a deployed model, we propose to explore the feature importance for the models. For various models trained with different algorithms, we can use different computation methods to rank the importance of features. Taking the Random Forest algorithm as an example, we can compute the feature permutation importance using MDG (the Mean Decrease in Gini Impurity) and MDA (the Mean Decrease in Accuracy) methods (Breiman, 2001). For other classification algorithms such as SVM, NN, and Naïve Byes, we use the permutation importance method (Aaron et al., 2018) to inspect the feature importance. Feature permutation importance score is useful for inspecting the model performance and provides the insight of feature contributions to model performance. We use feature importance score to rank the features by generating an ordered list of features along with their importance score. With this ranking list, the teachers/instructors/trainers can understand the rationale of the student model reasoning and make the right decision, such as tailoring the course object and designing training scenarios for intelligent education systems.
A Case Study
This section presents a case study, an intelligent navigation tutoring system, to demonstrate the feasibility and usefulness of the proposed machine learning-based modeling methods. The objective is to build the student models using the ITS data to validate the proposed modeling methods. We focus on model performance, such as accuracy, specificity, and sensitivity, instead of the learning performance. At this stage, we are only interested in evaluating the performance of models instead of the learning performance of model deployment in education systems.
Overview of Intelligent Navigation Tutoring Systems
The huge maritime casualties and their environmental impacts, especially the stranding of the EXXON tanker in Alaska, showed that human error in ship navigation is one of the primary causes of accidents. To reduce maritime accidents and human errors in ship navigation, it is necessary to improve navigators' skills. Existing navigation training systems such as a ship-handling simulator help the trainees/students master basic navigation skills and traffic regulations (navigation subject course) before they go to practice on board. The training is conducted by providing realistic navigation environments and ship encounter situations under experienced navigators' instruction (trainers). However, such training systems do not provide navigation tutoring support for instructing and helping the trainees to master the mandatory skills. To overcome such shortcomings, we developed an intelligent navigation tutoring system by applying knowledge-based collision avoidance systems (Kose, 1995) to the existing navigation training system, a ship-handling simulator, to provide intelligent decision-making support collision avoidance as an intelligent navigation tutor. The developed navigation tutor is shown in Figure 2, consisting of four main components: domain model, trainee profile, tutor model, graphic training instruction/interaction interface (instruction model), and ship handling simulator with navigation environment database. There are no student models in this navigation tutoring system yet instead of a student profile for each individual (trainee). The ship handling simulator (Kose, 1990) is a visualized navigation environment that can provide a 3-D navigation view/scenario which imitates water current, sea surface, wind, rain, etc., based on the navigation environment database and ship handling training course objects. This simulated environment provides a realistic navigation feeling and perception for trainees. The domain model is implemented as a knowledge-based system capable of automatically solving ship navigation problems for various encountering situations and complicated waterways.
The Intelligent Navigation Tutoring Systems.
With the support of domain models, the tutor model can instruct the trainees on how to take a collision-avoidance action and handle the ship to execute the recommended actions for collision avoidance. It also provides the trainees the supporting information such as the application of traffic regulations, the encounter situation, the risk level of their ship corresponding to target ships. Such training information, explaining the current encounter situation, can help trainees/students understand collision regulations and marine safety regulations and help trainees master basic navigation skills. This support information is aiming at helping trainees to analyze the risk level around the scheduled course line. In real navigation, the ship has a destination and a scheduled navigating plan. The Captain hopes to keep the ship following the scheduled navigation plan and not to deviate so far from it. Figure 3 shows such training instruction information. With the decision support of Figure 3, the trainees/students can easily figure out where is the risk zone. The darker of the risk area in Figure 3 shows the risker navigating area. The risk is an important indicator for navigator to manuvuour the ship. It is computed based on navigation theory (Liu et al., 2012). We will explain this indicator in the later section. It will make it possible for trainees to easily learn different Captains' experiences in their navigation career. It is also possible for the tutor model to recommend proper action for collision avoidance to trainees. The risk distribution information explains the reason for the recommended collision-avoidance action.
The Risk Distribution Around Planed Route.
Using useful instruction information and well-designed navigation objects, or so-called course objects (ship encountering scenarios in different navigation areas and locations which may require local navigation regulations and rules to operate the ship). The various navigation training objects have distinct encountering situations with different complexity. Therefore the tutoring system can be used to train various navigators who have different educational backgrounds and experiences. The trainee-related information is stored in the student profile (trainee's profile). The outcomes may differ from the identical training object for distinct students due to the unique learning behaviors. Some students might succeed, and others may fail. For the failed navigation learning objects, the student can redo the course repeatedly until s/he masters the requested skills.
The Data Description and Data Collection
The navigation training experiments were conducted with the developed intelligent tutoring systems. Many navigation training objects (ship navigation scenarios with different encountering situations) were designed to train the various navigators with a distinct education background, knowledge level, and navigation experience. In the training experiments, the data were collected to develop the data-driven student/trainee models using the proposed machine learning-based modeling methods. There are two main tasks: one is to build high-performance student models, and another one is to validate the usefulness and feasibility of our proposed methods.
In training students, the navigation course is designed as training objects. The training data for each training object was collected with a given sampling rate. The training data was collected in this navigation tutoring system as shown in Table 1, which explains data source, variables, attribute meaning, and data type. In Table 1, EDbk is a nominal feature that is normalized based on Educational Background, such as a degree of education, major subject. For our modeling, we have to obtain relevant and “gold” data for modeling. For one training object, we only select the data which shows the shortest distance with the encountering target ship. In other words, one training object is corresponding to one record along with the outcome determined by instructors. Outcome (rst) is F (failed) or P (pass). In this work, we focused on classification-based student models, which predict the outcomes of the learning object based on student profile, learning object contents, and complexity of navigation environments (encountering situation, navigating areas, narrow navigating routes, congested water area, the many waypoints, etc.). As described in Table 1, we also collected the description information for each training object and training results (grand truth). After selecting the relevant data, the dataset contains1560 samples (or training records) with grand truth (F or P). This dataset is used to develop the student models for validating the proposed machine learning-based methods as presented in the following subsection.
The Variables in the Collected Data From Navigation Tutoring Systems.
The Student Modeling Experiments and Preliminary Results
Using the preprocessed dataset, we start to build the student models to capture their learning behavior and predict outcomes following the machine learning-based methodology described in Section 2. The first step is to preprocess the data and select relevant data as we described above. In the collected data described in Table 1, some attributs have to assign the right value based on the raw data. For example, the subjective variables of “hardwork” is processed as a nominal variable and assigned value based on the assessment report of instructor given a trainer and a training object. The value is set as “yes”, “natural”, and “rare”. Other nominal variables such as “EDbk”, “INTest”, are processed similarly. The second step is to generate the new features, using domain knowledge. New features can help improve the model performance. In this work, we computed “risk” based on the navigation theory and its own ship and target ship's data. This feature plays a vital role in student modeling. It reflects the subjective judgment of encounter situation and action-taken decision from different trainees (students). Theoretically, risk is computed based on the relative status between target ships and own ship. It is a function of relative speed, the size of ship, distance at the closed point, and time of closest point between two ships. The details can be referred in reference (Liu et al., 2012). Even though there is no collision, some navigators prefer to keep a large distance from the target ship and avoid action much earlier; some are the opposite. Therefore it is a subjective attribute. We also normalize this variable to make it more practical and closest to the human feeling of encounter situation. In this dataset, the ground truth for each instance (a record) was decided by the training instructor immediately after finishing the training course. Once we have finished data engineering to generate the necessary features, we can build models following the developed modeling methodology described in Section 2.
As we emphasized above, we concentrate on developing classification-based student models. For this experiment, we used the WEKA tool (Ian 2016), which is available in machine learning community freely, to perform modeling experiments. WEKA is an open source and platform providing most machine algorithms for modeling experiments. Therefore, we selected four representative classification algorithms in machine learning: Decision Trees, Naïve Byes, SVM, and Neural Network. The models derived from these algorithms can be easily deployed in the education systems. For each algorithm, we configure it with two versions: one is default configuration; another one is with “cost matrix” which can enforce to change the model behavior for generalization ability by weighting the training samples and punishing the unexpected predictions. It may either improve performance or degrade the performance. In our experiments, we trained eight student models. Considering that the data size is not huge enough to conduct two separate independent training and testing experiments, we perform 4-fold cross-validation to compute the model performance with three metrics: accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity. The preliminary results are shown in Table 2.
The Model Performance Computed for Three Metrics.
As we described in Section 2.4, we computed the feature importance using the permutation importance method for these classification algorithms or student models. Usually, we select a suitable model from Table 2 for model deployment in ITS. All features inputted to the selected model are ranked with the importance score. The rank results are shown in Table 3.
The Importance Score Ranking of Features.
Discussion
As shown in Table 2, the preliminary results from student modeling experiments are promising and positive. In terms of the model performance, it is obvious that the model,
Table 3 shows interesting results that the student models are highly correlated with high –score features. These high-score features are “risk”, “the speed of own ship”, “the type of encounter”, “the number of target ships”, and “education background”. This information is useful for instructors or trainers to design the training course object for different students based on their educational background and navigation experience. It is also obvious that some features in Table 3 are irrelevant to the student models' performance. During the modeling or model deployment, such features can be ignored.
It is worth to note that the machine learning-based methods for student modeling are general and transformative. Even though we only demonstrated it using student modeling from our case study, it applies to any education system.
It is also worth to mention that we have just developed classification-based models to predict the outcome of learning performance, given a learning course object. Similarly, it can develop regression-based student models to estimate the learning course's grade with relevant data. For example, if the instructors can add the grade for each training object as an outcome, we can easily build regression-based models to estimate the student's grade given a learning course object. To do this, we need to adopt the regression algorithms given a numeric target variable from the dataset and utilize the corresponding metrics to compute the performance. For instance, we can select the Random Forest Decision Tree as a regression algorithm to model the “grade” of the learning course. In such a way, the regression-based models will estimate the course grade given a student’s profile and learning behavers as well as course object contents. Then we can choose metrics such as MSE and RMSE to compute the model performance.
As we mentioned, this work concentrated on machine learning-based methods for student modeling instead of the impact of the student models in education. We are confident that the developed student models help enhance learning performance once they are deployed into an ITS or corresponding education system. The best way to validate the usefulness of the developed student models to improve the learning/teaching performance or personalized education is to conduct the field trial. Asking the same students (trainees) to perform the learning process using the same learning objects (whose were used to train in the ITS without the student models), then we can evaluate the learning performance by comparing two results (ITS with/without the student models) (VanLehn, 2011). Unfortunately, it is impossible to get all students (they had returned to different workplaces worldwide) back to the Lab to conduct learning experiments. It is also not suitable for result comparison since the students’ skills and knowledge have changed after years. This is a limitation of the result evaluation in this work.
To incorporate the developed student models into an education system and evaluate its powerful strength for improving the education technology, we have to investigate the following issues which will be the future research topics:
Deploying the student models into the ITS and evaluating the impact on teaching- efficiency carefully and students' performance by developing various applications, including personalized education, course recommendation systems, student learning problems/error diagnostics, etc. On the other hand, it is necessary to develop regression-based student models to estimate the learning performance; Increasing the transparency of the machine learning-based student models. The machine learning-based models are not transparent in internal inference and look like a black box. (Rosé et al., 2019). So far, there is no good solution to help to understand the rationales of the model output. Therefore it is a huge barrier to extend the application of machine learning-enabled modeling technologies widely. We have to find a solution to explain the model inference rationales; Transferring the student models from one subject to other learning subjects; from one domain to other domains; from one student to other students. This is a challenge facing us in student modeling for developing AI-aided education technology. Many studies are dedicating to transfer learning (Luo et al., 2017) in the machine learning community. Hopefully, these transfer learning studies could be applied to intelligent education systems, particularly student modeling. This is a mandatory and inevitable requirement for advancing student modeling in education technology.
Conclusions
This paper reported the proposed machine learning-based modeling methodology for developing student models for intelligent education systems such as the ITS. The proposed modeling methodology can help building student models from the historical educational data. The paper presented a case study for demonstrating the feasibility and usefulness of the methodology by building student models from the historical data collected in the navigation training systems, an ITS for training navigators/students. Following the developed methodology, the modeling experiments were extensively performed and the models were evaluated using 4-folde cross validation. The experimental results promisingly proved that the proposed modeling approach is feasible and useful. We believe in that the proposed methodology for student modeling is transformative and it can be applied to develop the machine learning-based student models for other intelligent educational systems such as science education systems for different grade students. The paper emphased several remaining challenges and suggested future research directions. One of challengings is to develop the modeling techniques to transfer the student models from one domain to other domains, and from one course subject to other subjects.
Footnotes
Declaration of Conflicting Interests
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