Construction and analysis of educational tests using abductive machine learning

Computers and Education

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-16

  El Alfy, El Sayed M ^a   Abdel Aal, Radwan E ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Abductive machine learning; Abductive networks; Educational measurements; Item response theory; Neural networks; Optimal test design; Test analysis; Test construction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; EDUCATION; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; NEURAL NETWORKS;

ABDUCTIVE MACHINE LEARNING; ABDUCTIVE NETWORKS; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENTS; ITEM RESPONSE THEORY; OPTIMAL TEST DESIGN;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 43549126867     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2007.03.003     Document Type: Article

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