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Kuan-Yu Jin; Yi-Jhen Wu; Ming Ming Chiu – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2025
Many education tests and psychological surveys elicit respondent views of similar constructs across scenarios (e.g., story followed by multiple choice questions) by repeating common statements across scales (one-statement-multiple-scale, OSMS). However, a respondent's earlier responses to the common statement can affect later responses to it…
Descriptors: Administrator Surveys, Teacher Surveys, Responses, Test Items
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Ramsay, James O.; Wiberg, Marie – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2017
This article promotes the use of modern test theory in testing situations where sum scores for binary responses are now used. It directly compares the efficiencies and biases of classical and modern test analyses and finds an improvement in the root mean squared error of ability estimates of about 5% for two designed multiple-choice tests and…
Descriptors: Scoring, Test Theory, Computation, Maximum Likelihood Statistics