A theory of the measurement of knowledge content, access, and learning.

Abstract

An approach to the measurement of knowledge content, knowledge access, and knowledge learning is developed. This approach has 2 elements: First, a theoretical view of cognition, called the Newell-Dennett framework, is described that is particularly favorable to the development of a measurement approach. A class of measurement models, based on Rasch modeling, is described that is particularly favorable to the development of cognitive theories. Knowledge content and access are viewed as

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