Measuring Student Learning With Item Response Theory

We investigate short-term learning from hints and feedback in a Web-based physics tutoring system. Both the skill of students and the difficulty and discrimination of items were determined by applying item response theory (IRT) to the first answers of students who are working on for-credit homework...

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Main Authors: Lee, Young-Jin (Contributor), Palazzo, David J. (Contributor), Warnakulasooriya, Rasil (Contributor), Pritchard, David E. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society, 2010-02-23T21:02:59Z.
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