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Peer reviewedTatsuoka, Kikumi K. – Journal of Educational Statistics, 1985
A probablistic approach to classification and diagnosis of erroneous rules of operations that result from misconceptions ("bugs") in a procedural domain of arithmetic is introcuced. Variability of response errors is explicitly treated through item response theory. As a concrete example, a signed-number subtraction dataset is analyzed.…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Education, Error Patterns
