Recent Developments in Cognitive Diagnostic Models

Abstract

Cognitive Diagnostic Models (CDMs) have been developed for a few decades to reveal students’ knowledge status. The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of recent advances in CDMs, and to figure out the trend in its model development. In the paper, we first introduce the fundamental concept of CDMs, and then summarize broad range of modern CDMs by classifying them into compensatory, noncompensatory, and integrated models as well as other emerging approaches. Finally, we discuss the future orientation of CDM studies with focus on the empirical applications.