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Accurate Assessment via Process Data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Susu Zhang ,
Zhi Wang ,
Jitong Qi ,
Jingchen Liu Open the ORCID record for Jingchen Liu [Opens in a new window]  and
Zhiliang Ying
Susu Zhang
Affiliation:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Zhi Wang
Affiliation:
Citadel Securities
Jitong Qi
Affiliation:
Columbia University
Jingchen Liu*
Affiliation:
Columbia University
Zhiliang Ying
Affiliation:
Columbia University
*
Correspondence should be made to Jingchen Liu, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. Email: jcliu@stat.columbia.edu
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Abstract

Accurate assessment of a student’s ability is the key task of a test. Assessments based on final responses are the standard. As the infrastructure advances, substantially more information is observed. One of such instances is the process data that is collected by computer-based interactive items and contain a student’s detailed interactive processes. In this paper, we show both theoretically and with simulated and empirical data that appropriately including such information in the assessment will substantially improve relevant assessment precision.

Keywords

Process dataability estimationautomated scoringRao–Blackwellization

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Theory and Methods
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Psychometrika , Volume 88 , Issue 1 , March 2023 , pp. 76 - 97
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Copyright © 2022 The Author(s) under exclusive licence to The Psychometric Society

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