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Shavelson, Richard J.; Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga; Beck, Klaus; Schmidt, Susanne; Marino, Julian P. – International Journal of Testing, 2019
Following employers' criticisms and recent societal developments, policymakers and educators have called for students to develop a range of generic skills such as critical thinking ("twenty-first century skills"). So far, such skills have typically been assessed by student self-reports or with multiple-choice tests. An alternative…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Cognitive Tests, Performance Based Assessment, Student Evaluation
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Williamson, David M.; Bauer, Malcolm; Steinberg, Linda S.; Mislevy, Robert J.; Behrens, John T.; DeMark, Sarah F. – International Journal of Testing, 2004
In computer-based interactive environments meant to support learning, students must bring a wide range of relevant knowledge, skills, and abilities to bear jointly as they solve meaningful problems in a learning domain. To function effectively as an assessment, a computer system must additionally be able to evoke and interpret observable evidence…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Psychometrics, Task Analysis, Performance Based Assessment
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Levy, Roy; Mislevy, Robert J. – International Journal of Testing, 2004
The challenges of modeling students' performance in computer-based interactive assessments include accounting for multiple aspects of knowledge and skill that arise in different situations and the conditional dependencies among multiple aspects of performance. This article describes a Bayesian approach to modeling and estimating cognitive models…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Markov Processes, Computer Networks, Bayesian Statistics