Designing and constructing pedagogical tests that contain items (ie questions) which
measure various types of skills for different levels of students equitably is a challenging task …

This article describes the evolution and current state of the domain-independent Siette
assessment environment. Siette supports different assessment methods—including classical …

Accurately assessing task difficulty is a critical aspect to achieve adaptation in computer-
based educational systems. In real-world scenarios, task difficulty estimation can be …

Besides learners' awareness of their knowledge, a growing number of studies also
emphasise the importance of teachers' awareness of how well their students perform to …

This Research Full Paper presents a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) that investigates
state-of-the-art methods, processes, approaches, and instruments based on Item Response …

Learning analytics has emerged as a promising tool for optimizing the learning experience
and results, especially in online educational environments. An important challenge in this …

This article considers the relationship between differential homework task difficulty, student
engagement and performance across four Irish post-primary school sites. A total of 236 …

Field-testing is an essential yet often resource-intensive step in the development of high-
quality educational assessments. I introduce an innovative method for field-testing newly …

The estimation of the difficulty level of exercises is a fundamental aspect of intelligent
tutoring systems, and it is necessary in order to achieve better adaptation to the students' …

The level of difficulty of mathematical test items is a critical aspect for evaluating test quality
and educational outcomes. Accurately predicting item difficulty during test creation is thus …