Application of the DINA model framework to enhance assessment and learning

Abstract

This chapter introduces cognitive diagnosis models as a component of an alternative psychometric framework for diagnostic modeling and assessment and contrasts them to traditional item response models. The focus of this chapter is on the family of cognitive diagnosis models which represent various formulations and extensions of the deterministic, input, noisy " and " gate (DINA) model. The assumptions of, related examples pertaining to, and appropriate uses of these models are covered. In addition, several issues pertaining to the DINA models in particular and diagnostic modeling in general are also discussed.