ERIC Number: EJ1401122
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 32
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1076-9986
EISSN: EISSN-1935-1054
Bayesian Estimation of Attribute Hierarchy for Cognitive Diagnosis Models
Chen, Yinghan; Wang, Shiyu
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, v48 n6 p810-841 2023
Attribute hierarchy, the underlying prerequisite relationship among attributes, plays an important role in applying cognitive diagnosis models (CDM) for designing efficient cognitive diagnostic assessments. However, there are limited statistical tools to directly estimate attribute hierarchy from response data. In this study, we proposed a Bayesian formulation for attribute hierarchy within CDM framework and developed an efficient Metropolis within Gibbs algorithm to estimate the underlying hierarchy along with the specified CDM parameters. Our proposed estimation method is flexible and can be adapted to a general class of CDMs. We demonstrated our proposed method via a simulation study, and the results from which show that the proposed method can fully recover or estimate at least a subgraph of the underlying structure across various conditions under a specified CDM model. The real data application indicates the potential of learning attribute structure from data using our algorithm and validating the existing attribute hierarchy specified by content experts.
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Models, Bayesian Statistics, Computation, Algorithms, Language Tests
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES)
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Grant or Contract Numbers: 2051198