Special issue: Bayesian applications to educational and psychological testing

Chapter 15 PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS OF EDUCATIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING

The main aim of this chapter is to introduce the reader to the concept of testing and to the principles that underpin the practice of educational and psychological testing. The first part of this chapter is devoted to that aim. A second aim of the chapter is to examine applications of testing under the headings of educational, industrial, and clinical. Examples will be introduced from the autho...

Bayesian hypothesis testing: Editorial to the Special Issue on Bayesian data analysis.

In the past 20 years, there has been a steadily increasing attention and demand for Bayesian data analysis across multiple scientific disciplines, including psychology. Bayesian methods and the related Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling techniques offered renewed ways of handling old and challenging new problems that may be difficult or impossible to handle using classical approaches. Yet, such ...

Testing Variances in Psychological and Educational Research

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Bayesian Networks in Educational Testing

In this paper we discuss applications of Bayesian networks to educational testing. Namely, we deal with the diagnosis of person’s skills. We show that when modeling dependence between skills we can get faster a better diagnosis. We also show that there exist test setups for which it is impossible to get a complete and correct diagnosis unless we model dependence between skills. We present resul...

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