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Extracting Linguistic Signal From Item Text and Its Application to Modeling Item Characteristics

Posted: | Victoria Yaneva, Peter Baldwin, Le An Ha, Christopher Runyon

Advancing Natural Language Processing in Educational Assessment: Pages 167-182

 

This chapter discusses the evolution of natural language processing (NLP) approaches to text representation and how different ways of representing text can be utilized for a relatively understudied task in educational assessment – that of predicting item characteristics from item text.

Category:Assessment-Oriented Research, Applications of Technology, Scoring

A Problem with the Bookmark Procedure's Correction for Guessing

Posted: | Peter Baldwin

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice

 

This article aims to answer the question: when the assumption that examinees may apply themselves fully yet still respond incorrectly is violated, what are the consequences of using the modified model proposed by Lewis and his colleagues? 

Category:Assessment-Oriented Research, General Measurement