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ERIC Number: EJ863080
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009-Dec
Pages: 14
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0033-3123
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When Cognitive Diagnosis Meets Computerized Adaptive Testing: CD-CAT
Cheng, Ying
Psychometrika, v74 n4 p619-632 Dec 2009
Computerized adaptive testing (CAT) is a mode of testing which enables more efficient and accurate recovery of one or more latent traits. Traditionally, CAT is built upon Item Response Theory (IRT) models that assume unidimensionality. However, the problem of how to build CAT upon latent class models (LCM) has not been investigated until recently, when Tatsuoka ("J. R. Stat. Soc., Ser. C, Appl. Stat." 51:337-350, 2002) and Tatsuoka and Ferguson ("J. R. Stat., Ser. B" 65:143-157, 2003) established a general theorem on the asymptotically optimal sequential selection of experiments to classify finite, partially ordered sets. Xu, Chang, and Douglas (Paper presented at the annual meeting of National Council on Measurement in Education, Montreal, Canada, 2003) then tested two heuristics in a simulation study based on Tatsuoka's theoretical work in the context of computerized adaptive testing. One of the heuristics was developed based on Kullback-Leibler information, and the other based on Shannon entropy. In this paper, we showcase the application of the optimal sequential selection methodology in item selection of CAT that is built upon cognitive diagnostic models. Two new heuristics are proposed, and are compared against the randomized item selection method and the two heuristics investigated in Xu et al. (Paper presented at the annual meeting of National Council on Measurement in Education, Montreal, Canada, 2003). Finally, we show the connection between the Kullback-Leibler-information-based approaches and the Shannon-entropy-based approach, as well as the connection between algorithms built upon LCM and those built upon IRT models.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada; Canada (Montreal)
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