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Causal Modelling of Support Interventions for Student Competency Assessment

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 25, 2026 · UTC

Accurate assessment of student competencies is essential for enabling educators to identify individual needs, design targeted interventions, and evaluate the effectiveness of educational strategies. Empirical assessment procedures are typically grounded in psychometric models, such as item response theory, which relate student competence levels to performance on assessment tasks. In this paper, we advocate adopting a structural causal modelling approach to educational assessment, moving beyond probabilistic belief updating toward a framework that explicitly supports interventional and counterf

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