An Overview of Recent Developments in Cognitive Diagnostic Computer Adaptive Assessments.

Cognitive diagnostic modeling has become an exciting new field of psychometric research. These models aim to diagnose examinees’ mastery status of a group of discretely defined skills, or attributes, thereby providing them with detailed information regarding their specific strengths and weaknesses. Combining cognitive diagnosis with computer adaptive assessments has emerged as an important part of this new field. This article aims to provide practitioners and researchers with an introduction to and overview of recent developments in cognitive diagnostic computer adaptive assessments.

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