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Download full textWainer, Howard; Thissen, David – 1992
If examinees are permitted to choose to answer a subset of the questions on a test, just knowing which questions were chosen can provide a measure of proficiency that may be as reliable as would have been obtained from the test graded traditionally. This new method of scoring is much less time consuming and expensive for both the examinee and the…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Cost Effectiveness, Responses, Scoring
Wainer, Howard; And Others – 1990
The initial development of a testlet-based algebra test was previously reported (Wainer and Lewis, 1990). This account provides the details of this excursion into the use of hierarchical testlets and validity-based scoring. A pretest of two 15-item hierarchical testlets was carried out in which examinees' performance on a 4-item subset of each…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Algebra, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing
