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MEST Journal  2013 

KNOWLEDGE ASSESSMENT AND APPLICATION OF COMPUTER ADAPTIVE TESTING

DOI: 10.12709/mest.01.01.02.02, PP. 16-30

Subject Areas: Education, Information Science

Keywords: knowledge assessment, CAT, computer adaptive testing, estimation of knowledge, Bayes' theorem, MAP approach, spearman rank-order correlation coefficient, grading system

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Assessment of knowledge and skills of students, and people at all, are everyday practice in today's world. It is implemented in different ways and for that purpose many methods are used. It is impossible to find one general method, the best in all circumstances. The first part of this paper deals with the problems that arise in the evaluation, and the second part analyzes the possibility of using of computer adaptive testing to determine the grades of students’ knowledge. Special attention is paid to the objectivity of evaluation and to the impact of assessors on the final mark. Here are reconsidered examples of grading of the students’ papers presented and defended in an international student’s competition, as well as defending of several students' term papers in the frame of regular university classes. The results were compared, and it was pointed to many of aspects of establishing the objectivity of the obtained scores. In the section dealing with the presentation of the application of computer adaptive testing in the evaluation, there are presented algorithm of testing, research methods and results of the research on concrete examples from practice. Here is, also, made the comparison of the scores that the same students had achieved in two testing modes: classical testing and computerized adaptive testing. In addition to this comparison, this paper presents the results of a survey of the impressions of tested students. In doing so, the questions were focused on the appropriateness of computer adaptive testing and the other impressions that students had gained during testing, satisfaction with the earned mark and so on. The results achieved by applying computer adaptive testing are summarized in the conclusions, and also some advantages and disadvantages of such testing are discussed. At the end, the paper answers the question about the usefulness of evaluations and, also, some questions about the objectivity of the assessment.

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?ekerevac, Z. , Andjeli?, S. and ?ekerevac, P. (2013). KNOWLEDGE ASSESSMENT AND APPLICATION OF COMPUTER ADAPTIVE TESTING. MEST Journal, e4609. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.12709/mest.01.01.02.02.

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