ABSTRACT
Advancing Natural Language Processing in Educational Assessment examines the use of natural language technology in educational testing, measurement, and assessment. Recent developments in natural language processing (NLP) have enabled large-scale educational applications, though scholars and professionals may lack a shared understanding of the strengths and limitations of NLP in assessment as well as the challenges that testing organizations face in implementation. This first-of-its-kind book provides evidence-based practices for the use of NLP-based approaches to automated text and speech scoring, language proficiency assessment, technology-assisted item generation, gamification, learner feedback, and beyond. Spanning historical context, validity and fairness issues, emerging technologies, and implications for feedback and personalization, these chapters represent the most robust treatment yet about NLP for education measurement researchers, psychometricians, testing professionals, and policymakers.
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|73 pages
Automated Scoring
chapter 4|16 pages
Assessment of Clinical Skills
part II|49 pages
Item Development
chapter 5|13 pages
Automatic Generation of Multiple-Choice Test Items from Paragraphs Using Deep Neural Networks
chapter 6|17 pages
Training Optimus Prime, M.D.
chapter 7|17 pages
Computational Psychometrics for Digital-First Assessments
part III|40 pages
Validity and Fairness
part IV|70 pages
Emerging Technologies