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Curran, Linda T.; Jordan, Linda A. – 1996
In the summer of 1996, the U.S. Armed Services will implement the computerized adaptive testing version of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (CAT-ASVAB). When conversion is completed at the 65 targeted military entrance processing stations, about half the applicants will take this test version. This paper describes the efforts that…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Aptitude Tests, Armed Forces, Computer Assisted Testing
Jones, Marshall B. – 1991
The microcomputer has increased interest in performance testing, which samples what a person can do rather than what he or she knows. Conventional psychometric theory is based on knowledge tests, but in performance testing the unit of analysis is a trial, and it is unreasonable to assume that mean performance and interim correlations are…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Higher Education, Military Personnel, Performance Based Assessment
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Green, Bert F. – Applied Measurement in Education, 1988
Emerging areas and critical problems related to computer-based testing are identified. Topics covered include adaptive testing; calibration; item selection; multidimensional items; uses of information processing theory; relation to cognitive psychology; and tests of short-term and spatial memory, perceptual speed and accuracy, and movement…
Descriptors: Cognitive Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Content Validity, Information Processing