Overheads for EDMS Spring 2008, "Cognitive Psychology and Assessment"

Course Overview

Cognitive Psychology Overview

Neural Nets, Part 1

Neural Nets, Part 2

Cognitive Psychology and Educational Assessment

Layers in the assessment enterprise

Argument Substance and Argument Structure

Leverage points

Design patterns

Expertise studies and assessment.

Comments on Salthouse (1991) .

Quickstart on knowledge representations.

Presentation on the Hively, Patterson, & Page (1968) reading, for an assessment based on a behaviorist perspective.

Presentation on the Embretson (1998) reading, for an assessment built around trait and information-processing perspectives.

The design under constraints design pattern we made together in class.

Cognitive diagnosis presentation.

Knowledge representations in task design.

On the role of context in assessment

Making Sense of Data from Complex Assessments