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Wainer, Howard; Thissen, David – 1994
When an examination consists in whole or part of constructed response test items, it is common practice to allow the examinee to choose a subset of the constructed response questions from a larger pool. It is sometimes argued that, if choice were not allowed, the limitations on domain coverage forced by the small number of items might unfairly…
Descriptors: Constructed Response, Difficulty Level, Educational Testing, Equated Scores
Pritchard, David E.; Morote, Elsa-Sofia – 2002
This paper demonstrates that an electronic tutoring program can collect data that enables a far more reliable assessment of students' skills than a standard examination. Socratic electronic homework tutor, CyberTutor can integrate effectively instruction and assessment. CyberTutor assessment has about 62 times less variance due to random test…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Software Development, Computer System Design, Data Collection