Assessment@Scale: Combining Psychometrics and Machine Learning for Assessment in Massive Open Online Courses

Leading team:

Dr. Giora Alexandron
Asaf Salman
Dr. Alona Faktor

Former Project team:

Dr. Sa’ar James Karp Gershon
Aviram Berg
Ella Anghel (visiting PhD student from Boston College)
Lisa Yoo ( former visiting student from MIT)

Secretariat and Administration:

Avital Cohen Onn

Brief

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) provide access to high-quality educational materials to anyone with an internet connection. However, no standards currently exist for valid, reliable, and fair assessment of students in MOOCs. Our work combines methods from Psychometrics and Machine Learning in order to develop techniques capable of measuring various aspects of student learning in MOOCs.