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Swan, Gerry; Mazur, Joan – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2011
Although the term data-driven decision making (DDDM) is relatively new (Moss, 2007), the underlying concept of DDDM is not. For example, the practices of formative assessment and computer-managed instruction have historically involved the use of student performance data to guide what happens next in the instructional sequence (Morrison, Kemp, &…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Preservice Teachers, Formative Evaluation, Heuristics
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Leucht, Richard M. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 1998
Presents a variation of a "greedy" algorithm that can be used in test-assembly problems. The algorithm, the normalized weighted absolute-deviation heuristic, selects items to have a locally optimal fit to a moving set of average criterion values. Demonstrates application of the model. (SLD)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Computer Assisted Testing, Criteria, Heuristics