Frontiers in Education • Vol 6
A Diagnostic Framework for the Empirical Evaluation of Learning Maps
January 2022 • W. Jake Thompson, Brooke Nash
Learning progressions and learning map structures are increasingly being used as the basis for the design of large-scale assessments. Of critical importance to these designs is the validity of the map structure used to build the assessments. Most commonly, evidence for the validity of a map structure comes from procedural evidence gathered during the learning map creation process (e.g., research literature, external reviews). However, it is also important to provide support for the validity of the map structure wi…