Evidence centered design framework and dynamic bayesian network for modeling learning progression in online assessment system

Abstract

An overarching mission of the educational assessment community today is strengthening the connection between assessment and learning. To support this effort, researchers draw variously on developments across technology, analytic methods, assessment design frameworks, research in learning domains, and cognitive, social, and situated psychology. The study lays out the connection among three such developments, namely learning progressions, evidence-centered assessment design (ECD), and dynamic Bayesian modeling for measuring students’ advancement along learning progression in a substantive domain. Their conjunction can be applied in both formative and summative assessment uses. In addition, this study conducted an application study in domain of beginning computer network engineering for illustrating the ideas with data drawn from the Cisco Networking Academy’s online assessment system.