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Using Mutual Information for Adaptive Item Comparison and Student Assessment

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Liu, Chao-Lin – Educational Technology & Society, 2005

The author analyzes properties of mutual information between dichotomous concepts and test items. The properties generalize some common intuitions about item comparison, and provide principled foundations for designing item-selection heuristics for student assessment in computer-assisted educational systems. The proposed item-selection strategies…

Descriptors: Test Items, Heuristics, Classification, Item Analysis