Assessing the Knowledge Base of Students: An Information Theoretic Approach to Testing
- 1 October 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development
- Vol. 19 (3) , 116-130
- https://doi.org/10.1080/07481756.1986.12022831
Abstract
Measuring student information, partial information, and misinformation based on an information theoretic approach model of knowledge assessment is the primary focus of the microcomputer-based test scoring procedure presented in this article.Keywords
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