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Download full textChung, Gregory K. W. K.; Niemi, David; Bewley, William L. – 2003
This paper discusses the use of ontologies and their applications to assessment. An ontology provides a shared and common understanding of a domain that can be communicated among people and computational systems. The ontology captures one or more experts' conceptual representation of a domain expressed in terms of concepts and the relationships…
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programming), Computer Software, Concept Mapping, Educational Assessment
van der Linden, Wim J.; Carlson, James E. – 1999
A popular design in large-scale educational assessments is the balanced incomplete block design. The design assumes that the item pool is split into a set of blocks of items that are assigned to assessment booklets. This paper shows how the technique of 0-1 linear programming can be used to calculate a balanced incomplete block design. Several…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Item Banks, Linear Programming, Research Design
