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Fall 2021
Feedback is essential for knowledge acquisition, but there is a paucity of automated feedback generation frameworks in intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) that facilitate and scaffold students’ learning across domains. This study introduces a novel framework for generating templated-based...
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Developing a Framework and Demonstrating a Systematic Process for Generating Medical Test Items
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Automatic item generation (AIG) is a field of research dedicated to the production of test items using computer technology. Despite dramatic developments on AIG in the past decade, there is little documentation on a general methodology for creating the models needed to generate items. The purpose...
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Development and Validation of an Automated Essay Scoring Framework by Integrating Deep Features of English Language
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Automated scoring methods have become an important topic for the assessments of 21st century skills. Recent development in computational linguistics and natural language processing has given rise to more rational based methods for the extraction and modeling of language features. The language...
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Evaluating the Psychometric Properties of the 18-month "Ages and Stages Questionnaires" using a Canadian Sample: Making Inferences about Decision Consistency from Item and Subscale-Level Data
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Developmental screening tools, such as "Ages and Stages Questionnaires" (ASQ) are an important addition to the pediatric care to identify developmental delays at critical age periods. ASQ questionnaires have demonstrated good psychometric properties in the US context; however sample-dependent...
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Making Diagnostic Inferences about Student Performance on the Alberta Education Diagnostic Mathematics Project: An Application of the Attribute Hierarchy Method
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Cognitive diagnostic assessments (CDA) is an approach where the psychology of learning is combined with methods and models in statistics for the purpose of making inferences about students’ specific knowledge structures and processing skills. This study used a four-step principled approach to...
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The Relationship between Information and Communication Technology and Academic Achievement in Mathematics and Science in PISA 2015
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Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is present in many classrooms around the world but its effect on student learning is not fully understood. This research investigates the relationship of ICT with the mathematics and science scales for 15-year-old students in 47 countries that...
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Using the Ottawa Surgical Competency Operative Room Evaluation (O-SCORE) in a Canadian Plastic Surgery Program
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Competency-based medical education has overtaken the traditional apprenticeship model of medical education. This shift toward competence-based training demands a higher number of assessments per trainee. Current assessment methods in Plastic Surgery have not been well studied. Numerous assessment...