The assessment of knowledge, in theory and in practice
The assessment of knowledge, in theory and in practice
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理论和实践中的知识评估
DOI:
10.1109/kimas.2003.1245109
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发表时间:
2003
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通讯作者:
Nicolas Thiéry
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作者:
J. Falmagne;Eric Cosyn;Jean;Nicolas Thiéry
Adaptations from a book and many scholarly articles are presented. It reviews the main ideas of a novel theory for the assessment of a student's knowledge in a topic and gives details on a practical implementation in the form of a software system available on the Internet. The basic concept of the theory is the 'knowledge state,' which is the complete set of problems that an individual is capable of solving in a particular topic, such as elementary algebra. The task of the assessor consists in uncovering the particular state of the student being assessed. Even though the number of knowledge states for a topic may exceed several hundred thousand, these large numbers are well within the capacity of current home or school computers. The result of an assessment consists in two short lists of problems, which may be labelled: 'what the student can do' and 'what the student is ready to learn'. In the most important applications of the theory, these two lists specify the exact knowledge state of the individual being assessed.