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Tenison, Caitlin; Ling, Guangming; McCulla, Laura – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2023
In this paper we use historic score-reporting records and test-taker metadata to inform data-driven recommendations that support international students in their choice of undergraduate institutions for study in the United States. We investigate the use of Structural Topic Modeling (STM) as a context-aware, probabilistic recommendation method that…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Undergraduate Students, College Choice, Models
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Liu, Ren; Huggins-Manley, Anne Corinne; Bulut, Okan – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2018
Developing a diagnostic tool within the diagnostic measurement framework is the optimal approach to obtain multidimensional and classification-based feedback on examinees. However, end users may seek to obtain diagnostic feedback from existing item responses to assessments that have been designed under either the classical test theory or item…
Descriptors: Models, Item Response Theory, Psychometrics, Test Construction
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Wolfe, Edward W.; Manalo, Jonathan R. – ETS Research Report Series, 2005
This study examined scores from 133,906 operationally scored Test of English as a Foreign Language™ (TOEFL®) essays to determine whether the choice of composition medium has any impact on score quality for subgroups of test-takers. Results of analyses demonstrate that (a) scores assigned to word-processed essays are slightly more reliable than…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Scores