ERIC Number: EJ1062731
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 13
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ISSN: EISSN-2161-4210
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Assessment of Robust Learning with Educational Data Mining
Baker, Ryan S.; Corbett, Albert T.
Research & Practice in Assessment, v9 p38-50 Win 2014
Many university leaders and faculty have the goal of promoting learning that connects across domains and prepares students with skills for their whole lives. However, as assessment emerges in higher education, many assessments focus on knowledge and skills that are specific to a single domain. Reworking assessment in higher education to focus on more robust learning is an important step towards making assessment match the goals of the context where it is being applied. In particular, assessment should focus on whether learning is robust (Koedinger, Corbett, & Perfetti, 2012), whether learning occurs in a way that transfers, prepares students for future learning, and is retained over time; and also on skills and meta--competencies that generalize across domains. By doing so, we can measure the outcomes that we as educators want to create, and increase the chance that our assessments help us to improve the outcomes we wish to create. In this article, we discuss and compare both traditional test--based methods for assessing robust learning, and new ways of inferring robustness of learning while the learning itself is occurring, comparing the methods within the domain of college genetics.
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Data Collection, Information Retrieval, Learning Processes, Outcomes of Education, Comparative Analysis, Case Studies, Genetics, Student Evaluation, Tests, Bayesian Statistics, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Metacognition, College Students, Alternative Assessment, Computer Assisted Testing
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
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Grant or Contract Numbers: DRL-091018