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Peer reviewedBeland, Anne; Mislevy, Robert J. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1996
This article addresses issues in model building and statistical inference in the context of student modeling. The use of probability-based reasoning to explicate hypothesized and empirical relationships and to structure inference in the context of proportional reasoning tasks is discussed. Ideas are illustrated with an example concerning…
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Models, Networks, Probability
