This research work provides the basis for the design, development and implementation of an intelligent evaluation system on the bases of a Computerized Adaptive Test. The development of this adaptive test prototype will allow the measurement of mathematical reasoning skills, incorporating to the final result, a cognitive profile that can be used to monitor the academic performance of students throughout their stay at the institution of higher education. The theoretical part provides the basic principles of an adaptive test, the psychometry of the items including their difficulty, discrimination and predictability; the construction of performance levels from the cognitive processes based on Bloom's Taxonomy, as well as the description and design of an intelligent algorithm for the selection of items. For the experimental part, items calibrated and tested in written tests applied to a sample of more than 10,000 students were used. In addition, the development of the intelligent evaluation system using a three-level client-server architecture, implemented in the java programming language, using MySQL as a database management system and HTML for the user interface is explained and finally, some of the results obtained when implementing the system in a group of students are provided.
 

Cognitive processes; Adaptive computerized test; Algorithm of intelligent evaluation; Adaptive algorithm.