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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

Adding Objectivity to Standard Setting: Evaluating Consequence Using the Conscious and Subconscious Weight Methods

Posted: | B.C. Leventhal, I. Grabovsky

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 39: 30-36

 

This article proposes the conscious weight method and subconscious weight method to bring more objectivity to the standard setting process. To do this, these methods quantify the relative harm of the negative consequences of false positive and false negative misclassification.

Category:Assessment-Oriented Research, General Measurement