We present a cognitive model of inducing verb selectional preferences from individual verb usages. The selectional preferences for each verb argument are represented as a probability distribution over the set of semantic properties that the argument can possess—a semantic profile. The semantic profiles yield verb-specific conceptualizations of the arguments associated with a syntactic position....

Abstract Taking notes while simultaneously listening to academic content in a second language is daunting task for many students. While doing so, the note-taker faced with number of choices, including when, where, and how take notes. Choices that students make are related overall format system as well record specific pieces information. The option translanguaging, or making use their multilingu...

We study a buyer who periodically auctions off short-term supply contracts among her supply base. To mitigate significant cost shocks to procurement the buyer can diversify her supply base by selecting suppliers from different regions. We find that the buyer’s decision to diversify depends on her bid-taker power, that is, her ability to choose the auction mechanism. At one extreme, when the buy...

We present preliminary work on automatically scoring constructed responses elicited as part of a certification test designed to measure the effectiveness of the test-taker as a K-12 music teacher. This content scoring differs from most previous work in that the responses are relatively long and are written by an adult population of generally proficient English writers. We obtain reasonably good...

The Law School Admission Council (LSAC) is a nonprofit corporation that provides unique, state-of-the-art products and services to ease the admission process for law schools and their applicants worldwide. Currently, 222 law schools in the United States, Canada, and Australia are members of the Council and benefit from LSAC's services. All law schools approved by the American Bar Association ar...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic had changed the world in unexpected ways and psychometric assessment was no exception. Despite advancements made online implementation, authors of this commentary reflected on their own experiences context psychology profession South Africa, where professionals been faced with dilemma halting, postponing or adapting assessments for remote impleme...

Selection of information from external sources is an important skill assessed in educational measurement. We address an integrative summarization task used in an assessment of English proficiency for nonnative speakers applying to higher education institutions in the USA. We evaluate a variety of content importance models that help predict which parts of the source material should be selected b...

A flexilevel test is a test that applies fixed branching techniques to select the items to be administered during a given test. In the study reported here, 180 first year Computer Science undergraduates took a test as part of their summative assessment for a programming module. The test was administered in 2 stages: one flexilevel test and one conventional test. The order in which the stages we...

Background Digital-first assessments leverage the affordances of technology in all elements assessment process: from design and development to score reporting evaluation create test taker-centric assessments. Objectives The goal this paper is describe engineering, machine learning, psychometric processes technologies a security framework (part larger ecosystem; Burstein et al., 2021) that can b...