Open Access Article

Title: The evaluation method of English teaching quality incorporating students' cognitive transfer

Authors: Yanting Xu

Addresses: College of General Education, Zhangzhou Health Vocational College, Zhangzhou 363000, China

Abstract: Current English teaching quality evaluation methods ignore the influence of students' cognitive level on the evaluation results. To this end, this paper first establishes a diagnostic model of students' English cognition, dynamically assigns students to subgroups with similar abilities through K-means clustering, and computes the mean capability attribute value for all groups. Subsequently, the hidden memory information is extracted from the evaluation text, and the cognitive ability vector is extracted from the English practice records. Students' cognitive abilities are transferred to the evaluation text memory information to obtain the cognitive transfer matrix. The attention scheme is employed to integrate the text memory information and cognitive ability representations to categorise the evaluation texts. Simulation results indicate that the suggested approach has an AUC of 0.9725, which is better than the comparison approach and can achieve more accurate English quality evaluation.

Keywords: English teaching evaluation; K-means clustering; cognitive diagnosis; cognitive transfer; attention mechanism.

DOI: 10.1504/IJICT.2025.147709

International Journal of Information and Communication Technology, 2025 Vol.26 No.28, pp.17 - 32

Received: 20 May 2025
Accepted: 08 Jun 2025

Published online: 25 Jul 2025 *