Statistical Applications to Cognitive Diagnostic Testing
Susu Zhang, Jingchen Liu, Zhiliang Ying · Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application · 2022
Diagnostic classification tests are designed to assess examinees’ discrete mastery status on a set of skills or attributes. Such tests have gained increasing attention in educational and psychological measurement. We review diagnostic classification models and their applications to testing and learning, discuss their statistical and machine learning connections and related challenges, and introduce some contemporary and future extensions.