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Arikan, Serkan; Aybek, Eren Can – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2022
Many scholars compared various item discrimination indices in real or simulated data. Item discrimination indices, such as item-total correlation, item-rest correlation, and IRT item discrimination parameter, provide information about individual differences among all participants. However, there are tests that aim to select a very limited number…
Descriptors: Monte Carlo Methods, Item Analysis, Correlation, Individual Differences
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Sinharay, Sandip – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2018
The choice of anchor tests is crucial in applications of the nonequivalent groups with anchor test design of equating. Sinharay and Holland (2006, 2007) suggested "miditests," which are anchor tests that are content-representative and have the same mean item difficulty as the total test but have a smaller spread of item difficulties.…
Descriptors: Test Content, Difficulty Level, Test Items, Test Construction