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Faucon, Louis; Kidzinski, Lukasz; Dillenbourg, Pierre – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2016
Large-scale experiments are often expensive and time consuming. Although Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) provide a solid and consistent framework for learning analytics, MOOC practitioners are still reluctant to risk resources in experiments. In this study, we suggest a methodology for simulating MOOC students, which allow estimation of…
Descriptors: Markov Processes, Monte Carlo Methods, Bayesian Statistics, Online Courses
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Wang, Zhen; Yao, Lihua – ETS Research Report Series, 2013
The current study used simulated data to investigate the properties of a newly proposed method (Yao's rater model) for modeling rater severity and its distribution under different conditions. Our study examined the effects of rater severity, distributions of rater severity, the difference between item response theory (IRT) models with rater effect…
Descriptors: Test Format, Test Items, Responses, Computation
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Jiao, Hong; Wang, Shudong; He, Wei – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2013
This study demonstrated the equivalence between the Rasch testlet model and the three-level one-parameter testlet model and explored the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method for model parameter estimation in WINBUGS. The estimation accuracy from the MCMC method was compared with those from the marginalized maximum likelihood estimation (MMLE)…
Descriptors: Computation, Item Response Theory, Models, Monte Carlo Methods