Computerized adaptive testing attempts to provide the most suitable question for an examinee depending on the examinee¡¦s ability to achieve the best result. Although Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) and Bayesian Likelihood Estimation (BLE) have been provided to solve ability estimation and have good results in the literature, little attention has been paid to the situation when the answer of an item does not conform with the examinee¡¦s ability as expected nor standard derivation changes of the ability estimation. We hypothesized that the Adaptive-Network-Based Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) can be used to infer flexible examinee¡¦s ability estimation automically by analyzing the relevant data of the examinee in a test. Consequently, the study presents a novel learning ability model based on ANFIS, which can adaptively choose questions by Item Response Theory. Taking the item discrimination, difficulty, guessing, and the examinee¡¦s ability before he/she answers a question as parameters, the proposed method can infer the adjustment of the examinee¡¦s ability to update its value after he/she answers the question. The ANFIS model of the experiments were developed using MATLAB. The examinees were simulated and the training data were collected under three different situations. Through different combination of ANFIS fuzzy rules, the adjustment of ability is inferred to improve the accuracy of the estimated ability. The error between the true ability and the estimated ability obtained by the proposed model is compared with MLE and BLE. The simulation results show that the estimated ability error of ANFIS is smaller than MLE and BLE when the value of the test information is larger. The proposed method could provide better accuracy of the examinee¡¦s ability and offer more appropriate questions for examinees.
Keywords: ANFIS, Item Response Theory, Computerized Adaptive Testing
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0209107-151439 |
| Date | 09 February 2007 |
| Creators | Chen, Kai-pei |
| Contributors | none, none, none |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0209107-151439 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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