Bob Mislevy's Contributions to Bayesian Networks in Educational Assessment

Abstract Bayesian networks emerged as a psychometric modeling paradigm in the 1990s and have been gainfully employed in a variety of educational assessment contexts and applications. This article surveys Bob Mislevy's work on Bayesian networks and related graphical models in educational assessment. It is argued that Mislevy made seminal and influential contributions in this space, shaping how these models would be conceived, used, and further developed.