Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Cognitive diagnostic assessment"”.
-
Q-matrix optimization for cognitive diagnostic assessment
Cognitive diagnostic assessment is a growing area in psychological and educational measurement with the advantage of providing diagnostic profiles (mastery/non-mastery of measured attributes) for examinees, giving insights for classroom teaching and student learning. Central to the successful …
-
Effective cognitive diagnostic assessment with computerized adaptive testing
… are seeking out mechanisms for reporting diagnostic information about the strengths and weaknesses of each student. Cognitive diagnostic assessment (CDA) is a form of assessment that could facilitate the educators in discovering their students' strengths and weaknesses. In CDA, the …
-
Maximizing the Potential of Multiple-choice Items for Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment
When applying cognitive diagnostic models, the goal is to accurately estimate students’ diagnostic profiles. The accuracy of these estimates may be enhanced by looking at the types of incorrect options a student selects. This thesis research examines the additional diagnostic information available …
-
Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment of TIMSS-2007 Mathematics Achievement Items for 8th Graders in Turkey
… might show about participants' mastery level of cognitive areas. The least squares distance method (LSDM) was used in this cognitive diagnostic analysis. There were 4,498 8th-grade students from seven geographical regions of Turkey who took TIMSS items. In this study, using the responses of …
-
Rethinking the Force Concept Inventory: Developing a Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment to Measure Misconceptions in Newton's Laws
… in educational measurement have suggested that diagnostic cognitive models (DCMs) could be used to diagnose misconceptions and to create such misconception profiles. DCMs are multidimensional, confirmatory latent class models which are designed to measure the mastery/presence of fine-grained …
-
Implementing a cognitive diagnostic assessment in an institutional test: a new networking model in language testing and experiment with a new psychometric model and task type
This dissertation is based on two major projects, cognitive diagnostic model comparison and implementing cognitive diagnostic assessment in an institutional test. In the first project, five cognitive diagnostic models are empirically compared for language test data under a unified general modeling …
-
Ordered Category Attribute Coding Framework for Cognitive Assessments
Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment models define skills as binary. Examinees are described as either 'skill masters' or 'non-masters' and items as either requiring the skill or not. I propose an Ordered Category Attribute Coding (OCAC) framework, designed to enhance the diagnostic information provided …
-
Bridging the gap between research and practice: construction and validation of a CDA-informed English reading test for China's twelfth graders
Assessment should be made more useful for promoting students' learning success. Although recent research advances in cognitive diagnostic assessment (CDA) move in this direction, most CDA studies of second language (L2) reading tend to identify examinees' mastery of skills by using the existing …
-
Detection of Attribute Hierarchies and Classification Accuracy: the Value of the Hierarchical Diagnostic Classification Model in Formative Assessment Practices
… areas a student is excelling or struggling in, cognitive diagnostic models are emerging as potentially effective and efficient tools. Despite the value of diagnostic models, there are concerns regarding the application of these models when as learning hierarchy is present or theorized; applying …