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DeCarlo, Lawrence T. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 2011
Cognitive diagnostic models (CDMs) attempt to uncover latent skills or attributes that examinees must possess in order to answer test items correctly. The DINA (deterministic input, noisy "and") model is a popular CDM that has been widely used. It is shown here that a logistic version of the model can easily be fit with standard software for…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Computation, Cognitive Tests, Diagnostic Tests
Samejima, Fumiko – 1994
This paper discusses the competency space approach to diagnosing misconceptions, skill, and knowledge acquisition. In some approaches that combine misconceptions, skill, and knowledge acquisition, the latent ability theta is used more or less as an insignificant element, but in the competency space approach, a multidimensional latent space is…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests, Computer Software Development, Educational Assessment