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Peer reviewedMcKinley, Robert L.; Reckase, Mark D. – AEDS Journal, 1980
Describes tailored testing (in which a computer selects appropriate items from an item bank while an examinee is taking a test) and shows it to be superior to paper-and-pencil tests in such areas as reliability, security, and appropriateness of items. (IRT)
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Higher Education, Program Evaluation
Download full textRosso, Martin A.; Reckase, Mark D. – 1981
The overall purpose of this research was to compare a maximum likelihood based tailored testing procedure to a Bayesian tailored testing procedure. The results indicated that both tailored testing procedures produced equally reliable ability estimates. Also an analysis of test length indicated that reasonable ability estimates could be obtained…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Bayesian Statistics, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing
PDF pending restorationReckase, Mark D. – 1981
This paper has shown the advantages of tailored testing over traditional methods, the need for latent trait theory in the application of tailored testing, and some of the results available to show the quality of estimates obtained by tailored testing procedures. Since the tailored testing procedures overcome many of the problems with traditional…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adaptive Testing, Aptitude Tests, Computer Assisted Testing
Reckase, Mark D. – 1981
This report describes a study comparing the classification results obtained from a one-parameter and three-parameter logistic based tailored testing procedure used in conjunction with Wald's sequential probability ratio test (SPRT). Eighty-eight college students were classified into four grade categories using achievement test results obtained…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Classification, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing
McKinley, Robert L.; Reckase, Mark D. – 1980
A live tailored achievement testing study was conducted to compare procedures based on the one- and three-parameter logistic models. Previous studies yielded inconclusive results because of the procedures by which item calibrations were linked and because of the item selection procedures. Using improved procedures, 83 college students were tested…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Attitude Measures, Computer Assisted Testing, Correlation
Patience, Wayne M.; Reckase, Mark D. – 1979
Simulated tailored tests were used to investigate the relationships between characteristics of the item pool and the computer program, and the reliability and bias of the resulting ability estimates. The computer program was varied to provide for various step sizes (differences in difficulty between successive steps) and different acceptance…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Programs, Educational Testing
Patience, Wayne M.; Reckase, Mark D. – 1979
An experiment was performed with computer-generated data to investigate some of the operational characteristics of tailored testing as they are related to various provisions of the computer program and item pool. With respect to the computer program, two characteristics were varied: the size of the step of increase or decrease in item difficulty…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Difficulty Level, Error of Measurement
