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Levy, Roy – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2014
Digital games offer an appealing environment for assessing student proficiencies, including skills and misconceptions in a diagnostic setting. This paper proposes a dynamic Bayesian network modeling approach for observations of student performance from an educational video game. A Bayesian approach to model construction, calibration, and use in…
Descriptors: Video Games, Educational Games, Bayesian Statistics, Observation
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Bolfarine, Heleno; Bazan, Jorge Luis – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2010
A Bayesian inference approach using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is developed for the logistic positive exponent (LPE) model proposed by Samejima and for a new skewed Logistic Item Response Theory (IRT) model, named Reflection LPE model. Both models lead to asymmetric item characteristic curves (ICC) and can be appropriate because a symmetric…
Descriptors: Markov Processes, Item Response Theory, Bayesian Statistics, Monte Carlo Methods