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Adapting Adaptive Testing: Using the MicroCAT Testing System in a Local School District.

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Kingsbury, G. Gage – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1990

Application of computer-assisted testing (CAT) to measurement in the Portland (Oregon) Public Schools is described. Focus is on MicroCAT's developmental subsystem, which allows creation of items and test design specifications. Changes in CAT procedures allowing MicroCAT to function in existing testing systems and uses/limitations of MicroCAT…

Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Software Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education

Applications of Educational Measurement: Is Optimum Optimal?

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Plake, Barbara S. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1993

The development of a hypothetical testing program designed to provide optimum information about student achievement is chronicled. Computer adaptive testing and performance testing are postulated as part of the program. What optimum information really means is discussed. Optimum is only optimal when theory and application are balanced. (SLD)

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing