Showing 1 - 3 of 3 Research Library Publications

Automated Prediction Of Examinee Proficiency From Short-Answer Questions

Posted: | Le An Ha, Victoria Yaneva, Polina Harik, Ravi Pandian, Amy Morales, Brian Clauser

Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

 

This paper brings together approaches from the fields of NLP and psychometric measurement to address the problem of predicting examinee proficiency from responses to short-answer questions (SAQs).

Category:Assessment-Oriented Research, Scoring

Reporting Subscore Profiles Using Diagnostic Classification Models in Health Professions Education

Posted: | Y.S. Park, A. Morales, L. Ross, M. Paniagua

Evaluation & the Health Professions: Volume: 43 issue: 3, page(s): 149-158

 

This study examines the innovative and practical application of DCM framework to health professions educational assessments using retrospective large-scale assessment data from the basic and clinical sciences: National Board of Medical Examiners Subject Examinations in pathology (n = 2,006) and medicine (n = 2,351).

Category:Assessment-Oriented Research, Scoring, Product-Oriented Research, NBME

Conditional Subscore Reporting Using Iterated Discrete Convolutions

Posted: | R.A. Feinberg, M. von Davier

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics: Vol 45, Issue 5, 2020

 

This article describes a method for identifying and reporting unexpectedly high or low subscores by comparing each examinee’s observed subscore with a discrete probability distribution of subscores conditional on the examinee’s overall ability.

Category:Assessment-Oriented Research, Scoring