Skills Diagnosis
Skills diagnosis is concerned with the development and usage of tests that provide useful information about student mastery of instructionally meaningful specific skills, for example, as related to state mandated learning standards.
Framework Papers
Skills Diagnosis Using IRT-Based Latent Class Models, by Louis A. Roussos, Jonathan L. Templin, and Robert A. Henson (2007), from Journal of Educational Measurement, Vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 293–311
Framework Connection: Student-Task Interaction and Test-Centered Research
Review of Cognitively Diagnostic Assessment and a Summary of Psychometric Models, by Louis V. DiBello, Louis A. Roussos and William Stout (2007), from Handbook of Statistics, Vol. 26
Framework Connection: Modeling and Design
The Fusion Model Skills Diagnosis System, by Louis A. Roussos, Louis V. DiBello, William Stout, Sarah M. Hartz, Robert A. Henson, and Jonathan H. Templin (2007), from Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment for Education: Theory and Applications, published by Cambridge University Press.
Framework Connection: Statistical Analysis
Cognitive Diagnostic Attribute Level Discrimination Indices, by Robert Henson, William Stout, Jeff Douglas, Xuming He, and Louis Roussos (2006), Unpublished ETS Project Report, Princeton, NJ
Framework Connection: Reliability and Generalizability
Robustness of Unidimensional Hierarchical Modeling of Discrete Attribute Association in Cognitive Diagnosis Models, by Jonathan L. Templin, Robert A. Henson, Sara E. Templin, and Louis Roussos (2004), Unpublished ETS Project Report, Princeton, NJ
Framework Connection: Modeling Student-Task Interaction and Calibration and Ability Estimation Methods
The Effects of Attribute Heterogeneity on the Performance of Arpeggio and GAMEstats, by Louis Roussos and Tzur Karelitz (2004), Unpublished ETS Project Report, Princeton, NJ
Framework Connection: Task Modeling, Student Modeling, Modeling Student-Task Interaction, Calibration and Ability Estimation Methods, and Interpretion of Estimated Parameters
Theoretically Grounded Linking and Equating for Mastery/Non-Mastery Skills Diagnosis Models, by Louis Roussos, Jonathan Templin, and Robert Henson (2005), Unpublished ETS Project Report, Princeton, NJ
Framework Connection: Student Modeling, Equating, and Linking
Estimation of Attribute Association, by Robert Henson, Louis Roussos, William Stout
Jeff Douglas, Xuming He, and Jon Templin (2003), Unpublished ETS Project Report, Princeton, NJ
Framework Connection: Calibration and Ability Estimation Methods
Fusion Model "Fit" Indices, by Robert Henson, Louis Roussos, and Jon Templin (2005), Unpublished ETS Project Report, Princeton, NJ
Framework Connection: Model Fit
