Statistical applications to cognitive diagnostic testing

S Zhang, J Liu, Z Ying - Annual Review of Statistics and Its …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Diagnostic classification tests are designed to assess examinees' discrete mastery status on
a set of skills or attributes. Such tests have gained increasing attention in educational and …

Identifying latent structures in restricted latent class models

G Xu, Z Shang - Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This article focuses on a family of restricted latent structure models with wide applications in
psychological and educational assessment, where the model parameters are restricted via a …

Sufficient and necessary conditions for the identifiability of the Q-matrix

Y Gu, G Xu - Statistica Sinica, 2021 - JSTOR
Restricted latent class models (RLCMs) have recently gained prominence in educational
assessment, psychiatric evaluation, and medical diagnosis. In contrast to conventional latent …

Advances in CD-CAT: The general nonparametric item selection method

CY Chiu, YP Chang - psychometrika, 2021 - Springer
Computerized adaptive testing (CAT) is characterized by its high estimation efficiency and
accuracy, in contrast to the traditional paper-and-pencil format. CAT specifically for cognitive …

Nonparametric CAT for CD in educational settings with small samples

YP Chang, CY Chiu, RC Tsai - Applied psychological …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Cognitive diagnostic computerized adaptive testing (CD-CAT) has been suggested by
researchers as a diagnostic tool for assessment and evaluation. Although model-based CD …

Computerized adaptive testing for cognitively based multiple-choice data

HD Yigit, MA Sorrel… - Applied Psychological …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Cognitive diagnosis models (CDMs) are latent class models that hold great promise for
providing diagnostic information about student knowledge profiles. The increasing use of …

Diagnosing Primary Students' Reading Progression: Is Cognitive Diagnostic Computerized Adaptive Testing the Way Forward?

Y Li, C Huang, J Liu - Journal of Educational and Behavioral …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Cognitive diagnostic computerized adaptive testing (CD-CAT) is a cutting-edge technology
in educational measurement that targets at providing feedback on examinees' strengths and …

Adapting cognitive diagnosis computerized adaptive testing item selection rules to traditional item response theory

MA Sorrel, JR Barrada, J de la Torre, FJ Abad - Plos One, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Currently, there are two predominant approaches in adaptive testing. One, referred to as
cognitive diagnosis computerized adaptive testing (CD-CAT), is based on cognitive …

Methods for online calibration of Q-matrix and item parameters for polytomous responses in cognitive diagnostic computerized adaptive testing

Q Tan, D Wang, F Luo, Y Cai, D Tu - Behavior Research Methods, 2024 - Springer
The ability to rapidly provide examinees with detailed and effective diagnostic information is
a critical topic in psychology. Knowing what diagnostic criteria the examinees have met …

A note on the relationship of the Shannon entropy procedure and the Jensen–Shannon divergence in cognitive diagnostic computerized adaptive testing

W Wang, L Song, T Wang, P Gao, J Xiong - Sage Open, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the Shannon entropy
procedure and the Jensen–Shannon divergence (JSD) that are used as item selection …