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The Role of Formative Assessment in a Blended Learning Course

Assessing the effectiveness of a course design in higher education is an almost unfeasible task. The practical inability to conduct randomised controlled trials in a natural setting limits teachers who want to interpret their design choices to non …

A Practical Procedure for the Construction and Reliability Analysis of Fixed-Length Tests with Randomly Drawn Test Items

A procedure to construct valid and fair fixed-length tests with randomly drawn items from an item bank is described. The procedure provides guidelines for the set-up of a typical achievement test with regard to the number of items in the bank and the …

Computer adaptive practice of Maths ability using a new item response model for on the fly ability and difficulty estimation

In this paper we present a model for computerized adaptive practice and monitoring. This model is used in the Maths Garden, a web-based monitoring system, which includes a challenging web environment for children to practice arithmetic. Using a new …