@inproceedings{2ed12aac39d04ff4b15129a3d6cf6bfa,
title = "Teacher vs. Algorithm: Double-blind experiment of content sequencing in mathematics",
abstract = "We study content recommendation in an online learning environment for mathematics (N=77, 4th-5th grade student). We compare an expert teacher's recommendation to that of a neural network algorithm, implementing collaborative filtering ranking. We do so using a double-blind randomized controlled experiment. We find that when the difficulty of the teacher's sequence of recommendation was overall increasing, the teacher was superior to the algorithm regarding students' performance. Taken together, our findings indicate on how the algorithm and the expert teacher can benefit from each other.",
keywords = "Collaborative filtering, Content sequencing, Neural network",
author = "Ben Levy and Arnon Hershkovitz and Odelia Tzayada and Orit Ezra and Avi Segal and Kobi Gal and Anat Cohen and Michal Tabach",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} EDM 2019 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Educational Data Mining. All rights reserved.; 12th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, EDM 2019 ; Conference date: 02-07-2019 Through 05-07-2019",
year = "2019",
month = jan,
day = "1",
language = "English",
series = "EDM 2019 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Educational Data Mining",
publisher = "International Educational Data Mining Society",
pages = "603--606",
editor = "Lynch, {Collin F.} and Agathe Merceron and Michel Desmarais and Roger Nkambou",
booktitle = "EDM 2019 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Educational Data Mining",
address = "United States",
}