Parallel test assembly has long been an important yet challenging topic in educational assessment. Cognitive diagnosis models (CDMs) are a new class of assessment models and have drawn increasing attention for being able to measure examinees' ability...
Utilizing technology for automated item generation is not a new idea. However, test items used in commercial testing programs or in research are still predominantly written by humans, in most cases by content experts or professional item writers. Hum...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Nov 13, 2017
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Happiness is a universal fundamental human goal. Since the emergence of Positive Psychology, a major focus in psychological research has been to study the role of certain factors in the prediction of happiness. The conventio...
Computational and mathematical methods in medicine
Sep 26, 2016
Natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning were used to predict suicidal ideation and heightened psychiatric symptoms among adults recently discharged from psychiatric inpatient or emergency room settings in Madrid, Spain. Participants re...
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...
International journal of methods in psychiatric research
May 21, 2015
The study objective was to apply machine learning methodologies to identify predictors of remission in a longitudinal sample of 296 adults with a primary diagnosis of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Random Forests is an ensemble machine learning...
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...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Apr 1, 2015
Depression is a disease that can dramatically lower quality of life. Symptoms of depression can range from temporary sadness to suicide. Embarrassment, shyness, and the stigma of depression are some of the factors preventing people from getting help ...
Although the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has risen sharply in the last few years reaching 1 in 68, the average age of diagnosis in the United States remains close to 4--well past the developmental window when early intervention has t...
Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation
Oct 14, 2014
PURPOSE: Fuzzy set theory (FST) can improve various aspects of measurement with questionnaires. However, very little is known about how to use FST to measure quality of life (QOL). The main purpose of our study was to find an appropriate fuzzy measur...
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