Validating Student Score Inferences With Person-Fit Statistic and Verbal Reports: A Person-Fit Study for Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment

2013 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Cui ◽  
Mary Roduta Roberts
2021 ◽  
pp. 026553222199547
Author(s):  
Shangchao Min ◽  
Lianzhen He

In this study, we present the development of individualized feedback for a large-scale listening assessment by combining standard setting and cognitive diagnostic assessment (CDA) approaches. We used the performance data from 3358 students’ item-level responses to a field test of a national EFL test primarily intended for tertiary-level EFL learners. The results showed that proficiency classifications and subskill mastery classifications were generally of acceptable reliability, and the two kinds of classifications were in alignment with each other at individual and group levels. The outcome of the study is a set of descriptors that describe each test taker’s ability to understand certain level of oral texts and his or her cognitive performance. The current study, by illustrating the feasibility of combining standard setting and CDA approaches to produce individualized feedback, contributes to the enhancement of score reporting and addresses the long-standing criticism that large-scale language assessments fail to provide individualized feedback to link assessment with instruction.


AERA Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 233285842110608
Author(s):  
Fang Tang ◽  
Peida Zhan

Assessment for learning emphasizes the importance of feedback to promote learning. To explore whether cognitive diagnostic feedback (CDF) promotes learning and whether it is more effective than traditional feedback in promoting learning, this study conducted a quasi-experiment by utilizing a longitudinal cognitive diagnostic assessment to compare the effect of three feedback modes on promoting learning, including CDF, correct–incorrect response feedback (CIRF), and no feedback. The results provided some evidence for the conclusion that CDF can promote students’ learning and is more effective than CIRF in promoting learning, especially in more challenging areas of knowledge.


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