Online Evaluation with Trainee-Adaptive Tests

This paper presents an online application for test design and evaluation of trainees. We advance our research in two directions: activity flow modeling and adaptive test design. With activity flow modeling, we achieve high usability and structural coherence, while the adaptive test d esign method that we propose facilitates dynamic generation of tests based on topic relevance. Our method ensures the creation of adaptive tests that target to specific topics of interest for users, and employs specific policies to adju st the difficulty level of tests.

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