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Foster, Colin; Woodhead, Simon; Barton, Craig; Clark-Wilson, Alison – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2022
In this paper, we analyse a large, opportunistic dataset of responses (N = 219,826) to online, diagnostic multiple-choice mathematics questions, provided by 6-16-year-old UK school mathematics students (N = 7302). For each response, students were invited to indicate on a 5-point Likert-type scale how confident they were that their response was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Multiple Choice Tests
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Yen, Yung-Chin; Ho, Rong-Guey; Chen, Li-Ju; Chou, Kun-Yi; Chen, Yan-Lin – Educational Technology & Society, 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine whether the efficiency, precision, and validity of computerized adaptive testing (CAT) could be improved by assessing confidence differences in knowledge that examinees possessed. We proposed a novel polytomous CAT model called the confidence-weighting computerized adaptive testing (CWCAT), which combined a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Item Response Theory