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Download full textHamilton, Laura S.; Klein, Stephen P.; Lorie, William – 2000
This paper describes an approach to large-scale assessment that uses tests that are delivered to students over the Internet and that are tailored (adapted) to each student's own level of proficiency. A brief background on large-scale assessment is followed by a description of this new technology and an example. Issues that need to be investigated…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Student Evaluation, Test Construction
McKinley, Robert L.; Reckase, Mark D. – 1984
The purpose of this paper is to identify and discuss some of the problems presented by the use of computerized adaptive testing (CAT) in an instructional programs environment versus large scale testing applications, and to describe an actual implementation of CAT in an instructional programs setting. This particular application is in the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adaptive Testing, Adults, Computer Assisted Testing
PDF pending restorationMcArthur, David L. – 1985
This paper presents an explanation of the program design of the three separate Pascal-language programs which comprise UCLA's Diagnostic Testing Package "DX." The three parts of the DX test package are three closely interrelated programs--Editest, Runtest, and Summary. Editest serves the following functions: (1) the creation of a…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Software, Diagnostic Tests
Bock, R. Darrell; Zimowski, Michele F. – 2003
This paper discusses the rationale for enhancing the current National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) design by adding a capacity for adaptive testing. Items are tailored to the achievement level of the student in adaptive testing. The report describes a 1993 Ohio field trail of two-stage assessment carried out by the National Opinion…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Field Tests
Curran, Linda T.; Jordan, Linda A. – 1996
In the summer of 1996, the U.S. Armed Services will implement the computerized adaptive testing version of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (CAT-ASVAB). When conversion is completed at the 65 targeted military entrance processing stations, about half the applicants will take this test version. This paper describes the efforts that…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Aptitude Tests, Armed Forces, Computer Assisted Testing
Estes, Gary D., Ed. – 1985
This report and compilation of papers summarizes information collected by an Assessment Development and Use Project, initiated by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL) to assist test development efforts by state and local agencies. Specific item banking applications are reported in two case studies, selected because they represent…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Case Studies, Computer Assisted Testing, Costs
Bielinski, John; Thurlow, Martha; Minnema, Jane; Scott, Jim – 2002
In this study, special education teachers identified students with learning disabilities who were working on math skills usually taught two grades below the grade in which the student was enrolled. Each student (n=33) took two levels of the MAT/7 math computation test, an on-grade test, and an out-of-level test intended for students two grades…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adaptive Testing, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Assessment
