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Harold Doran; Testsuhiro Yamada; Ted Diaz; Emre Gonulates; Vanessa Culver – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2025
Computer adaptive testing (CAT) is an increasingly common mode of test administration offering improved test security, better measurement precision, and the potential for shorter testing experiences. This article presents a new item selection algorithm based on a generalized objective function to support multiple types of testing conditions and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Adaptive Testing, Test Items, Algorithms
Liou, Gloria; Bonner, Cavan V.; Tay, Louis – International Journal of Testing, 2022
With the advent of big data and advances in technology, psychological assessments have become increasingly sophisticated and complex. Nevertheless, traditional psychometric issues concerning the validity, reliability, and measurement bias of such assessments remain fundamental in determining whether score inferences of human attributes are…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Computer Assisted Testing, Adaptive Testing, Data
Krass, Iosif A.; Thomasson, Gary L. – 1999
New items are being calibrated for the next generation of the computerized adaptive (CAT) version of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) (Forms 5 and 6). The requirements that the items be "good" three-parameter logistic (3-PL) model items and typically "like" items in the previous CAT-ASVAB tests have…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Algorithms, Computer Assisted Testing, Nonparametric Statistics
Krass, Iosif A. – 1998
In the process of item calibration for a computerized adaptive test (CAT), many well-established calibrating packages show weakness in the estimation of item parameters. This paper introduces an on-line calibration algorithm based on the convexity of likelihood functions. This package consists of: (1) an algorithm that estimates examinee ability…
Descriptors: Ability, Adaptive Testing, Algorithms, Computer Assisted Testing
van der Linden, Wim J.; Scrams, David J.; Schnipke, Deborah L. – 2003
This paper proposes an item selection algorithm that can be used to neutralize the effect of time limits in computer adaptive testing. The method is based on a statistical model for the response-time distributions of the test takers on the items in the pool that is updated each time a new item has been administered. Predictions from the model are…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Algorithms, Computer Assisted Testing, Linear Programming

van der Linden, Wim J. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 1999
Proposes an algorithm that minimizes the asymptotic variance of the maximum-likelihood (ML) estimator of a linear combination of abilities of interest. The criterion results in a closed-form expression that is easy to evaluate. Also shows how the algorithm can be modified if the interest is in a test with a "simple ability structure."…
Descriptors: Ability, Adaptive Testing, Algorithms, Computer Assisted Testing

van der Linden, Wim J.; Scrams, David J.; Schnipke, Deborah L. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 1999
Proposes an item-selection algorithm for neutralizing the differential effects of time limits on computerized adaptive test scores. Uses a statistical model for distributions of examinees' response times on items in a bank that is updated each time an item is administered. Demonstrates the method using an item bank from the Armed Services…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Algorithms, Computer Assisted Testing, Item Banks
van der Linden, Wim J. – 1999
A constrained computerized adaptive testing (CAT) algorithm is presented that automatically equates the number-correct scores on adaptive tests. The algorithm can be used to equate number-correct scores across different administrations of the same adaptive test as well as to an external reference test. The constraints are derived from a set of…
Descriptors: Ability, Adaptive Testing, Algorithms, Computer Assisted Testing
Straetmans, Gerard J. J. M.; Eggen, Theo J. H. M. – Educational Technology, 1998
Describes the workings of computerized adaptive testing (CAT). Focuses on the key concept of information and then discusses two important components of a CAT system: the calibrated item bank and the testing algorithm. Describes a CAT that was designed for making placement decisions on the basis of two typical test administrations and notes the…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Algorithms, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer System Design