Publication Information
Authors:
- Christopher Doble, McGraw-Hill Education/ALEKS Corporation
- Jeffrey Matayoshi, McGraw-Hill Education/ALEKS Corporation
- Eric Cosyn, McGraw-Hill Education/ALEKS Corporation
- Hasan Uzun, McGraw-Hill Education/ALEKS Corporation
- Arash Karami, McGraw-Hill Education/ALEKS Corporation
Pages:
- 258-282
Keywords:
- Knowledge space theory, Simulation, Reliability, Adaptive assessment
Abstract:
- A large-scale simulation study of the assessment effectiveness of a particular instantiation of knowledge space theory is described. In this study, data from more than 700,000 actual assessments in mathematics using the ALEKS (Assessment and LEarning in Knowledge Spaces) software were used to determine response probabilities for the same number of simulated assessments, for the purpose of examining reliability. Several measures of reliability were examined, borrowed from existing psychometric approaches, with an eye toward developing measures for evaluating reliability for adaptive assessments. The results are compared to analogous results for assessments having mathematics content overlapping that of the ALEKS assessment, and some consequences and future directions are discussed.