In the education field, in order to achieve learning goals, it is necessary to define learning paths that foresee a gradual and incre- mental acquisition of certain knowledge and skills that students should acquire. In this paper we analyze the educational progressions of the French educational system, we show how to formalize them through a web ontology and how to perform knowledge extraction from the official texts describing them to automate the population of such an ontology.
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EduProgression - EKM Workshop 2016
1. A Formalization Of Standard Knowledge
And Skills For The French Elementary
School Curricula
Oscar Rodríguez Rocha
Catherine Faron Zucker
Second International Workshop on Educational Knowledge
Management (EKM 2016)
2. Introduction
2
Research questions
The EduProgression ontology
Future work
The French educational model
Motivations
State of the art
Overview and formalization
Knowledge extraction and population
Entity linking
4. Research questions
4
• How to model educational programs into a formal machine
understandable ontology that can be processed and
queried?
• How to extract the knowledge and skills that an educational
program requires from the official texts describing them?
• How to automate the population of such ontology, based on
the extracted knowledge?
• How can we exploit these formal representations?
5. 5
Ontologies in the domain of e-learning systems
• Ontologies in e-learning: Review of the literature - Yahya, M.A et al.
• Curonto: An ontological model for curriculum representation
- Yahya, M.A et al.
• Curonto: A semantic model of the curriculum for program
assessment and improvement - Alfaries, A. et al.
• An ontology-based curriculum knowledgebase for managing
complexity and change – Dexter, H. et al.
• Designing a semantic web ontology for e-learning in higher
education – Bucos, M. et al.
• Ontoedu: a case study of ontology-based education grid system
for e-learning - Guangzuo, C. et al.
State of the art
6. 6
Kindergarten/Nursery School/Pre-school (École maternelle)
Age Grade Abbreviation
3–4 Petite section PS
4–5 Moyenne section MS
5–6 Grande section GS
Primary School (École primaire)
6–7 Cours préparatoire CP, 11ème, or 11e
7–8 Cours élémentaire première année CE1, 10ème, or 10e
8–9 Cours élémentaire deuxième année CE2, 9ème, or 9e
9–10 Cours moyen première année CM1, 8ème, or 8e
10–11 Cours moyen deuxième année CM2, 7ème, or 7e
Junior High/Middle School (Collège)
11-12 Sixième 6ème or 6e
12-13 Cinquième 5ème or 5e
13-14 Quatrième 4ème or 4e
14-15 Troisième 3ème or 3e
High school/Secondary School (Lycée)
15–16 Seconde 2nde or 2de
16–17 Première 1ère
17–18 Terminale Term
The French educational model
School grade and cycles
Cycle 2: Basic learning
Cycle 3: Consolidation
Cycle 4: Deepening
7. 7
Mastery of the French
language
Practice of a foreign
language
Social and civic
competences
Humanistic culture
Mastery of the
common information
and communication
techniques
Basic math skills and
scientific and
technological culture
Autonomy and initiative of the
students
Common
base of
knowledge
and skills
The French educational model
7 pillar skills of the French common base of knowledge and skills
8. 8
The French educational model
Educational programs
Documents made per cycle that define:
• The specificities of the cycle
• Essential contributions of the subjects to the common base
• The subjects
• Skills to develop (making referencing to the common base)
• Objectives expected at the end of the cycle
• Knowledge and skills in general
• Notions about the progressive acquisition of knowledge and skills
(by grade or course)
9. 9
The French educational model
Learning progressions for the primary school
“Designed from the educational programs, they help to organize the
progressivity of learning for each year of cycles 2 and 3”
Cycle 2
• French
• Mathematics
• Physical and sportive education
• Living language
• Discovery of the world
• Civic and moral education
Cycle 3
• French
• Mathematics
• Physical and sportive education
• Living language
• Experimental Science and
Technology
• History
• Geography
• Civic and moral education
10. 10
The French educational model
Learning Progression of History
Progression’s
subject
Element of K&S
School year Learning domain
Knowledge
Skills
13. 13
Population of EduProgression
History.pdf History.rdf
Cycle 2
• French
• Mathematics
• Physical and sportive
education
• Living language
• Discovery of the world
• Civic and moral education
Cycle 3
• French
• Mathematics
• Physical and sportive education
• Living language
• Experimental Science and
Technology
• History
• Geography
• Civic and moral education
17. 17
Entity linking results
Progression Linked Resources Precision*
History 205 95%
Geography 187 94%
Experimental sciences and
technology
220 94%
* Obtained with a confidence of 0.15 and a support of 20
18. Future work
18
EduProgression ontology
• Adapt accordingly to the new French common base of knowledge and skills (2016)
• Internationalization, Common Core Initiative (http://www.corestandards.org/)
• Publication on Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV)
Industrial partnership
• Indexation of educational resources (industrial partner)
• Integration of recommendation algorithms
• Integration of student profiles
• Experimentation (industrial partner)
The "common core/base of knowledge and skills" presents what every student needs to know and master at the end of compulsory schooling.
Introduced into the law in 2005, it is the set of knowledge, skills, values and attitudes needed to succeed in schooling, as an individual and as a future citizen.
Trois paliers sont prévus pour évaluer la maîtrise progressive et effective du socle commun par les élèves :
palier 1 : en fin de CE1 (notamment pour évaluer l'acquisition de la lecture courante et de l'écriture) ;
palier 2 : à la fin de l'école primaire (notamment pour évaluer l'acquisition des règles fondamentales de la grammaire, du calcul élémentaire et des quatre opérations) ;
palier 3 : à la fin du collège (le brevet des collèges atteste de la maîtrise des sept compétences du socle).
Le socle doit être maîtrisé à la fin de la scolarité obligatoire, c'est-à-dire à 16 ans, et nombreux sont les élèves qui arrivent au lycée professionnel ou au lycée général à 15 ans.L'acquisition progressive du socle peut être suivie par l'élève, sa famille et les enseignants grâce à un livret personnel de compétences6 devenu obligatoire à la rentrée 2011-2012.
Dès la rentrée 2016, un nouveau socle commun sera effectif. A la dénomination de ce socle est ajouté le mot "culture".
Ce nouveau socle se décompose en cinq domaines:
les langages pour penser et communiquer ;
les méthodes et outils pour apprendre ;
la formation de la personne et du citoyen ;
les systèmes naturels et les systèmes techniques ;
les représentations du monde et l'activité humaine;
Primary school
Progressions define the progressive acquisition of knowledge and skills by grades (cours) of by school year