External Knowledge Representations in Educational Assessment Design

A paper by Robert J. Mislevy of the University of Maryland, College Park, discusses the roles of external knowledge representations in educational assessment. The work describes five key roles for EKRs in curriculum, instruction, and assessment, illustrated through an evidence-centered design framework. It highlights connections to automated task construction and scoring, using examples from computer network design and troubleshooting skills.

Use Cases

• Designing evidence-centered assessment tasks based on domain knowledge representations.
• Developing automated task construction systems for skills like network troubleshooting.
• Creating design EKRs to organize domain knowledge for assessment development.
• Analyzing a domain's external knowledge representations to inform assessment design.

Strengths

• Authored by a named researcher from a specific institution (Robert J. Mislevy, University of Maryland, College Park).
• Description provides a detailed conceptual framework with five defined roles for EKRs in assessment.

Limitations

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