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Virtual Performance-Based Assessments
Virtual performance-based assessments (VPBAs) are environments for test takers to interact with systems, sometimes including other persons or agents,...
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Further Issues in Producing Valid Assessment Data
This chapter extends the discussion of validity in Chap. 5 . Several important issues relating to the...
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Validity Considerations in Data Collection and Use
This chapter is concerned with the importance and meaning of data validity, and the implications for educational practice. Validity requires...
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Overview
This chapter provides an overview of the scope and sequence of issues covered in this book. The basis for a focus on using data to improve student...
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Decision Making: Going Beyond the Data
Decision making is a step beyond data analysis and interpretation. Data may suggest a need for action but not what that action should be. Decisions...
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Defining and Assessing Desired Learning Outcomes
What data on learning are needed depends on what learning outcomes are expected. In this chapter, two recently influential perspectives on learning...
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Managing Databases: Making Data Accessible
This chapter examines issues in making data available and accessible to relevant decision makers. Personnel at different structural levels of...
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A Data Science Perspective on Computational Psychometrics
Digitally based learning and assessment systems generate large volumes of complex process data. The next generation psychometricians need to acquire...
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Computational Psychometrics: A Framework for Estimating Learners’ Knowledge, Skills and Abilities from Learning and Assessments Systems
In recent years the advances in technology provided affordances for learning and assessments opportunities. In this chapter we first describe...
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Supervised Machine Learning
Machine learning refers to a set of methodologies that allow computers to “learn” the relationship among numerical representations of data. In this...
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Social Networks Analysis
Supported by advances in technology, simulation-, scenario- and game-based assessments (DiCerbo KE, Behrens JT, Implications of the digital ocean on...
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Time Series and Stochastic Processes
This chapter addresses some statistical modeling approaches for time series data and discusses their potential for psychometric applications. We...
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Advances in AI and Machine Learning for Education Research
There is a growing need for assessment and learning tools that capture a broad range of learner behavior necessary for the evaluation of skills such...
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Linking PIAAC Data to Individual Administrative Data: Insights from a German Pilot Project
Linking survey data to administrative data offers researchers many opportunities. In particular, it enables them to enrich survey data with...
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Design and Key Features of the PIAAC Survey of Adults
This chapter gives an overview of the most important features of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) survey...
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Analysing PIAAC Data with Stata
This chapter explains the basics of analysing data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) with Stata. It...
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Using EdSurvey to Analyse PIAAC Data
This chapter describes the use of the R package EdSurvey and its use in analysing PIAAC data. The package allows users to download public use PIAAC...
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Disattenuated Correlation
In Rasch Analysis in the Human Sciences, we presented a number of techniques that can be used to identify potential items and respondents who did not...
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Partial Credit Part II (How to Anchor a Partial Credit Test)
This chapter builds upon the material presented in the preceding chapter, but helps readers think about what is needed if an analyst wishes to link...
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Common Person Test Equating
In Rasch Analysis in the Human Sciences, we detailed the steps and thinking that are needed to link one test to another test (and to link one survey...