Projects
Psychometrics of MOOCs: How to measure proficiency? KU Leuven
The popularity of online courses with open access and unlimited learner participation (MOOCs) has been growing intensively. Certificates of MOOC completion are becoming a significant element in learners’ portfolios as well as an additional source of academic credits. That is why learners, professors, universities, and employers have an interest in accurate measures of learners’ proficiency in MOOCs. Existing psychometric approaches do not ...
Higher order informational interactions for psychometrics: new tools and perspectives Ghent University
I propose a framework in which psychometrics items such as response to questionnaries or clinical symptoms are grouped together in terms of their informational content, which can be classified as synergistic or redundant.
This approach will extend and complement the emerging field of network psychometrics, providing advances and solutions that are both statistical and conceptual. The implemented tools will allow researchers in ...
Psychometric validation of the work disability - Functional Assessment Battery (WD-FAB) for Belgium Ghent University
The project consists a large field aimed at the psychometric validation and calibration of the Dutch and French language versions of the “Work Disability- Functional Assessment Battery” (WD-FAB) for Computer Adaptive Testing, with the purpose of implementation by the Belgian social security institutions for supporting return-to-work trajectories after health problems.
Testing Taking a Transnational Turn A Historical Study into the Development and Proliferation of Psychometric Testing in China as a Culturally Entangled Technology, 1915-1935 KU Leuven
The use of psychometric testing techniques in education should be viewed as a multifaceted and transnational phenomenon that has witnessed the entanglement of various cultural ideas over a complex historical period. Most current research, however, tends to describe the development of psychological testing in Chinese educational settings as a one-way process driven by Western psychology. Therefore, this study focuses on the history of ...
The Need for Controllability and Predictability questionnaire: Psychometric properties and first findings in a clinical sample Hasselt University
Psychometric innovations for digital learning applications: Extensions to the Elo-rating system. KU Leuven
Digital learning environments have become popular tools for
practicing skills in young students. As an important advantage, these
learning environments can personalize the learning experience. For
instance, adaptive learning environments continuously adjust the
difficulty level of the content to the current skill level of the student,
thereby fostering the individual learning process. This adaptivity,
however, ...