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Cheng, Yiling – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2023
Computerized adaptive testing (CAT) offers an efficient and highly accurate method for estimating examinees' abilities. In this article, the free version of Concerto Software for CAT was reviewed, dividing our evaluation into three sections: software implementation, the Item Response Theory (IRT) features of CAT, and user experience. Overall,…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Assisted Testing, Adaptive Testing, Item Response Theory
Brookhart, Susan M., Ed.; McMillan, James H., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019
"Classroom Assessment and Educational Measurement" explores the ways in which the theory and practice of both educational measurement and the assessment of student learning in classroom settings mutually inform one another. Chapters by assessment and measurement experts consider the nature of classroom assessment information, from…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Student Evaluation, Theory Practice Relationship, Academic Achievement
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Choi, Youn-Jeng; Asilkalkan, Abdullah – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2019
About 45 R packages to analyze data using item response theory (IRT) have been developed over the last decade. This article introduces these 45 R packages with their descriptions and features. It also describes possible advanced IRT models using R packages, as well as dichotomous and polytomous IRT models, and R packages that contain applications…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Data Analysis, Computer Software, Test Bias
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Aybek, Eren Can; Demirtasli, R. Nukhet – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2017
This article aims to provide a theoretical framework for computerized adaptive tests (CAT) and item response theory models for polytomous items. Besides that, it aims to introduce the simulation and live CAT software to the related researchers. Computerized adaptive test algorithm, assumptions of item response theory models, nominal response…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Adaptive Testing, Item Response Theory, Test Items
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Wainer, Howard – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2010
In this essay, the author tries to look forward into the 21st century to divine three things: (i) What skills will researchers in the future need to solve the most pressing problems? (ii) What are some of the most likely candidates to be those problems? and (iii) What are some current areas of research that seem mined out and should not distract…
Descriptors: Research Skills, Researchers, Internet, Access to Information
Nering, Michael L., Ed.; Ostini, Remo, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2010
This comprehensive "Handbook" focuses on the most used polytomous item response theory (IRT) models. These models help us understand the interaction between examinees and test questions where the questions have various response categories. The book reviews all of the major models and includes discussions about how and where the models…
Descriptors: Guides, Item Response Theory, Test Items, Correlation
Coffman, William E. – 1986
The symposium, "Taming the Rasch Tiger: Using Item Response Theory in Practical Educational Measurement," was organized to deemphasize the technical complexities of item response theory (IRT) and to show the audience how IRT can be used in practical educational measurement. Four papers from the symposium are summarized and comments are…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Item Banks
Weiss, David J. – 1985
This research program was designed to investigate the applications of item response theory and computerized adaptive testing to the unique problems of the measurement of ability and the measurement of achievement. The research utilized a combination of monte carlo simulation studies and live-testing studies. The research approach for adaptive…
Descriptors: Ability, Achievement Tests, Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing
Forbes, Dean W. – 1986
For many years personalization of achievement testing has been impossible in all but the simplest forms. Recently, item response theory (IRT), or latent trait theory, has emerged as a valuable tool which brings far greater flexibility to the process than had previously been possible. The single parameter Rasch Model, a mathematical model developed…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Elementary Secondary Education
Ackerman, Terry A. – 1987
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of using multidimensional items in a computer adaptive test (CAT) setting which assumes a unidimensional item response theory (IRT) framework. Previous research has suggested that the composite of multidimensional abilities being estimated by a unidimensional IRT model is not constant…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, College Entrance Examinations, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Simulation
Weiss, David J. – 1983
During 1975-1979 this research into the potential of computerized adaptive testing to reduce errors in the measurement of human capabilities used Marine recruits for a live-testing validity comparison of computerized adaptive and conventional tests. The program purposes were to: (1) identify the most useful computer-based adaptive testing…
Descriptors: Ability, Adaptive Testing, Adults, Bayesian Statistics
Weiss, David J., Ed. – 1985
This report contains the Proceedings of the 1982 Item Response Theory and Computerized Adaptive Testing Conference. The papers and their discussions are organized into eight sessions: (1) "Developments in Latent Trait Theory," with papers by Fumiko Samejima and Michael V. Levine; (2) "Parameter Estimation," with papers by…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adaptive Testing, Branching, Computer Assisted Testing
Thorndike, Robert L. – 1983
In educational testing, one is concerned to get as much information as possible about a given examinee from each minute of testing time. Maximum information is obtained when the difficulty of each test exercise matches the estimated ability level of the examinee. The goal of adaptive testing is to accomplish this. Adaptive patterns are reviewed…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Difficulty Level, Latent Trait Theory
Urry, Vern W. – 1983
In this report, selection theory is used as a theoretical framework from which mathematical algorithms for tailored testing are derived. The process of tailored, or adaptive, testing is presented as analogous to personnel selection and rejection on a series of continuous variables that are related to ability. Proceeding from a single common-factor…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Algorithms, Computer Assisted Testing, Latent Trait Theory
Wainer, Howard; Thissen, David – 1985
Using simulated item response data, the performance of several "robust" and conventional schemes for ability estimation was evaluated in conjunction with logistic item response theory models (one, two, and three parameter models). The simulated item response data were generated using a model that is more complex than are the usual…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Adults, Computer Assisted Testing, Error of Measurement
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