Evidence and Inference in Educational Assessment.

Abstract

Educational assessment concerns inference about students' knowledge, skills, and accomplishments. Because data are never so comprehensive and unequivocal as to ensure certitude, test theory evolved in part to address questions of weight, coverage, and import of data. The resulting concepts and techniques can be viewed as applications of more general principles for inference in the presence of uncertainty. Issues of evidence and inference in educational assessment are discussed from this perspective. (AN)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA291474

Entities

People

  • Robert J. Mislevy

Organizations

  • Educational Testing Service

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Bayes Theorem
  • Bayesian Inference
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computer Programs
  • Educational Psychology
  • Information Processing
  • Military Research
  • Probabilistic Models
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Psychology
  • Reasoning
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Students
  • Thinking

Readers

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML