Extending item response theory to online homework

Item response theory (IRT) becomes an increasingly important tool when analyzing “big data” gathered from online educational venues. However, the mechanism was originally developed in traditional exam settings, and several of its assumptions are infringed upon when deployed in the online realm. For...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gerd Kortemeyer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2014-05-01
Series:Physical Review Special Topics. Physics Education Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.10.010118