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Wise, Steven L. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2015
The growing presence of computer-based testing has brought with it the capability to routinely capture the time that test takers spend on individual test items. This, in turn, has led to an increased interest in potential applications of response time in measuring intellectual ability and achievement. Goldhammer (this issue) provides a very useful…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Measurement, Computer Assisted Testing, Achievement Tests
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Pommerich, Mary – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2012
Neil Dorans has made a career of advocating for the examinee. He continues to do so in his NCME career award address, providing a thought-provoking commentary on some current trends in educational measurement that could potentially affect the integrity of test scores. Concerns expressed in the address call attention to a conundrum that faces…
Descriptors: Testing, Scores, Measurement, Test Construction
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Ketelaar, Marjolijn; Wassenberg-Severijnen, Jeltje – Physical & Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics, 2010
During the past 30 years many pediatric assessment and outcome measures have been developed. Based on Rasch analysis, the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI) was designed to measure functional status by asking parents about both the skills of their children and the performance of daily tasks in three functionally important domains…
Descriptors: Cues, Behavior Problems, Independent Living, Patients
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Wainer, Howard; Robinson, Daniel H. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2007
This article presents an interview with Susan E. Embretson. Embretson attended the University of Minnesota where she received her bachelor's degree in 1967 and earned a PhD in 1973 in psychology. She became an assistant professor at the University of Kansas in 1974 and was promoted to associate professor and full professor. In 2004, she accepted a…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Psychometrics, Cognitive Psychology, Item Response Theory
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Ferrara, Steve; Perie, Marianne; Johnson, Eugene – Journal of Applied Testing Technology, 2008
Psychometricians continue to introduce new approaches to setting cut scores for educational assessments in an attempt to improve on current methods. In this paper we describe the Item-Descriptor (ID) Matching method, a method based on IRT item mapping. In ID Matching, test content area experts match items (i.e., their judgments about the knowledge…
Descriptors: Test Results, Test Content, Testing Programs, Educational Testing
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Frey, Andreas; Carstensen, Claus H. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2009
On a general level, the objective of diagnostic classifications models (DCMs) lies in a classification of individuals regarding multiple latent skills. In this article, the authors show that this objective can be achieved by multidimensional adaptive testing (MAT) as well. The authors discuss whether or not the restricted applicability of DCMs can…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Test Items, Classification, Psychometrics
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Welch, R. Edwin; Frick, Theodore W. – Educational Technology, Research and Development, 1993
Discusses the use of computerized adaptive testing (CAT) in the classroom. Highlights include item response theory; sequential probability ratio test (SPRT); combining SPRT with expert system reasoning, resulting in EXSPRT; and a study of college students that examined the efficiency and accuracy of the various CAT methods discussed. (Contains 16…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Expert Systems, Higher Education
Laurier, Michel – 1990
Computerized adaptive testing for language teaching and learning takes advantage of two properties of the computer: its number-crunching and multiple-branching capabilities. Adaptive testing has also been called tailored testing because it aims at presenting items that suit the student's competence and that are informative, using an item bank and…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Foreign Countries, French