(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007)
Embretson, Susan E.; Yang, Xiangdong
Cognitive diagnostic assessment (CDA) is increasingly a major focus in psychological and educational measurement. Instead of inferring a general response tendency or behavior consistency of an examinee over
a target domain of measurement, diagnostic assessment results provide a detailed account of the underlying cognitive basis of the examinee's performance by mining the richer information that is afforded by
specific response patterns.
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004)
Embretson, Susan E.
Adaptive item generation may be the next innovation in intelligence testing.
In adaptive item generation, the optimally informative item is developed anew for the examinee during the test. Reminiscent of computer versus person chess games, the computer generates the next item based on the
previous pattern of the examinee's responses. Adaptive item generation
requires the merger of two lines of research, psychometric methods for
adaptive testing and a cognitive analysis of items.