SOAR TECHNOLOGY, LLC — Department of Defense STTR Phase I: N15A-T013

Description

We propose an intelligent assessment concept that will discover and reason about KSAs in multiple instruc-tional domains and settings. SoarTech will team with world-class researchers from the University of Califor-nia, Davis and the University of Memphis to research and develop TARGET: Transfer via Active Requests to Generalize Effective Training. TARGET will enhance SoarTechs assessment system DARTS, currently in schoolhouse use, with Active Transfer Learning that models student performance and skills in multiple in-structional domains, identifies underlying skills, finds relationships between domains, and actively queries human experts to continually improve its model. Learning Space Theory makes detailed cross-domain models tractable, enables inference that is understandable to nontechnical users and mathematically sound, and di-rects adaptive testing or intelligent tutoring. With these components, TARGET can predict what KSAs might be important to train a new capability, reduce testing needed to estimate students underlying proficiency, and remain accessible to instructors and SMEs who will be able to understand, trust, control, and update the sys-tem