Higher-order latent trait models for cognitive diagnosis |
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Authors: | de la Torre Jimmy Douglas Jeffrey A. |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Educational Psychology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 10 Seminary Place, 08901 New Brunswick, NJ, USA;(2) University of Illinois, USA |
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Abstract: | Higher-order latent traits are proposed for specifying the joint distribution of binary attributes in models for cognitive diagnosis. This approach results in a parsimonious model for the joint distribution of a high-dimensional attribute vector that is natural in many situations when specific cognitive information is sought but a less informative item response model would be a reasonable alternative. This approach stems from viewing the attributes as the specific knowledge required for examination performance, and modeling these attributes as arising from a broadly-defined latent trait resembling theϑ of item response models. In this way a relatively simple model for the joint distribution of the attributes results, which is based on a plausible model for the relationship between general aptitude and specific knowledge. Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms for parameter estimation are given for selected response distributions, and simulation results are presented to examine the performance of the algorithm as well as the sensitivity of classification to model misspecification. An analysis of fraction subtraction data is provided as an example. This research was funded by National Institute of Health grant R01 CA81068. We would like to thank William Stout and Sarah Hartz for many useful discussions, three anonymous reviewers for helpful comments and suggestions, and Kikumi Tatsuoka and Curtis Tatsuoka for generously sharing data. |
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Keywords: | cognitive diagnosis item response theory latent class model Markov chain Monte Carlo |
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