认知任务分析在考试中的应用

ognitive task analysis (CTA) is the extension of traditional task analysis. It’s an important field of the application of cognitive psychology, widely used in teaching, training, examination, organizational development, design of man-machine interface, organization design, product design and marketing. This paper presented the definition, course and history of CTA. It also provided a framework of CTA for test item. The framework has three component, concept map for its content aspect, pattern recognition for its course aspect and cognitive capacity for its mental load aspect. The framework can determine the indices of a test item (or an examination paper), such as knowledge coverage, demand of capacity, cognitive load and difficulty.