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knowledge_assessment:q-matrix [2012/07/05 13:34]
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knowledge_assessment:q-matrix [2012/07/05 13:56]
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 When forming a correlation matrix, we lose individual student data in favor of calculating average relationships between questions. The q-matrix method is optimized to assign each student the most appropriate knowledge state, using all available response data for each student. When forming a correlation matrix, we lose individual student data in favor of calculating average relationships between questions. The q-matrix method is optimized to assign each student the most appropriate knowledge state, using all available response data for each student.
  
 +As Sellers found in her research, the results obtained through ​
 +q-matrix analysis seem to describe relationships among variables in interpretable ways. 
 +Factor analysis and principal components analysis, on the other hand, do not readily offer 
 +interpretable results.
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