The British journal of mathematical and statistical psychology
Dec 8, 2024
Ordinal responses commonly occur in psychology, e.g., through school grades or rating scales. Where traditionally parametric statistical models like the proportional odds model have been used, machine learning (ML) methods such as random forest (RF) ...
The British journal of mathematical and statistical psychology
Oct 1, 2024
Over several years, the evaluation of polytomous attributes in small-sample settings has posed a challenge to the application of cognitive diagnosis models. To enhance classification precision, the support vector machine (SVM) was introduced for esti...
The British journal of mathematical and statistical psychology
Sep 13, 2023
Textual data are increasingly common in test data as many assessments include constructed response (CR) items as indicators of participants' understanding. The development of techniques based on natural language processing has made it possible for re...
The British journal of mathematical and statistical psychology
Oct 26, 2022
Computerized adaptive testing for cognitive diagnosis (CD-CAT) needs to be efficient and responsive in real time to meet practical applications' requirements. For high-dimensional data, the number of categories to be recognized in a test grows expone...
The British journal of mathematical and statistical psychology
Mar 27, 2022
Cognitive diagnosis models have become popular in educational assessment and are used to provide more individualized feedback about a student's specific strengths and weaknesses than traditional total scores. However, if the testing data are contamin...
The British journal of mathematical and statistical psychology
Feb 22, 2019
Complex simulator-based models with non-standard sampling distributions require sophisticated design choices for reliable approximate parameter inference. We introduce a fast, end-to-end approach for approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) based on fu...
The British journal of mathematical and statistical psychology
Mar 2, 2016
In order to look more closely at the many particular skills examinees utilize to answer items, cognitive diagnosis models have received much attention, and perhaps are preferable to item response models that ordinarily involve just one or a few broad...
The British journal of mathematical and statistical psychology
Apr 15, 2015
The Asymptotic Classification Theory of Cognitive Diagnosis (Chiu et al., 2009, Psychometrika, 74, 633-665) determined the conditions that cognitive diagnosis models must satisfy so that the correct assignment of examinees to proficiency classes is g...