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Zhang, Zhiyong; Zhang, Danyang – Grantee Submission, 2021
Data science has maintained its popularity for about 20 years. This study adopts a bottom-up approach to understand what data science is by analyzing the descriptions of courses offered by the data science programs in the United States. Through topic modeling, 14 topics are identified from the current curricula of 56 data science programs. These…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Definitions, Course Descriptions, Computer Science Education
Falk, Carl F.; Cai, Li – Grantee Submission, 2016
We present a logistic function of a monotonic polynomial with a lower asymptote, allowing additional flexibility beyond the three-parameter logistic model. We develop a maximum marginal likelihood based approach to estimate the item parameters. The new item response model is demonstrated on math assessment data from a state, and a computationally…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Guessing (Tests), Mathematics Tests, Simulation