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	Educational Data Mining	Knowledge Tracing
Field	Education	Education Analytics
Family	Machine learning	Machine learning
Year of origin	2009	1994
Originator	Educational data mining community (Baker, Yacef, Romero, Ventura)	Albert Corbett & John Anderson
Type	Application of data-mining and machine-learning methods to educational data	Probabilistic student modeling
Seminal source	Baker, R. S. J. d., & Yacef, K. (2009). The state of educational data mining in 2009: A review and future visions. Journal of Educational Data Mining, 1(1), 3–17.	Corbett, A. T., & Anderson, J. R. (1994). Knowledge tracing: Modeling the acquisition of procedural knowledge. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 4(4), 253–278.
Aliases	EDM, Mining Education Data, Data Mining in Education, Learner Data Mining	BKT, Bayesian Knowledge Tracing, Deep Knowledge Tracing, Bilgi İzleme
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Summary	Educational data mining (EDM) is the field that develops and applies data-mining and machine-learning methods to data generated by educational settings — clickstreams from online courses, intelligent tutoring system logs, assessment records, and student information systems. Its goal is to discover patterns that explain and predict learning: who is at risk of failing, how students work through material, which content sequences help, and what hidden skill structures underlie performance. EDM treats fine-grained learner data as a source of actionable scientific and practical insight.	Knowledge Tracing (KT) is a student-modeling technique that estimates, at each moment in time, the probability that a learner has mastered a target knowledge component. Introduced by Corbett and Anderson in 1994, the classical Bayesian Knowledge Tracing (BKT) model treats skill acquisition as a two-state Hidden Markov Model driven by four interpretable parameters: prior knowledge, learning rate, slip, and guess. Deep variants (DKT, DKVMN, AKT) later replaced HMMs with recurrent and transformer architectures.