Modeling the interaction between resilience and ability in assessments with allowances for multiple attempts
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Highlights：
• Eventual correctness on multiple-attempt test items depends on persistence, potentially complicating score interpretation. .
• An IRTree model for multiple-attempt items parses out persistence from achievement and, thus, latent resilience from ability. .
• Resilience, found uncorrelated with ability in online homework settings, should not be ignored as a factor in its own right. .
• While some items decrease in difficulty on subsequent tries, most items do not.
• Learners are less likely to reattempt difficult problems following incorrect response.
摘要
•Eventual correctness on multiple-attempt test items depends on persistence, potentially complicating score interpretation. .•An IRTree model for multiple-attempt items parses out persistence from achievement and, thus, latent resilience from ability. .•Resilience, found uncorrelated with ability in online homework settings, should not be ignored as a factor in its own right. .•While some items decrease in difficulty on subsequent tries, most items do not.•Learners are less likely to reattempt difficult problems following incorrect response.
论文关键词：Multiple attempt,Tree-based item response models,Resilience,Persistence,Computer-based assessment,Summative assessment
论文评审过程：Received 10 December 2019, Revised 17 April 2021, Accepted 25 April 2021, Available online 30 April 2021, Version of Record 15 May 2021.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.106847
