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Gönülates, Emre – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2019
This article introduces the Quality of Item Pool (QIP) Index, a novel approach to quantifying the adequacy of an item pool of a computerized adaptive test for a given set of test specifications and examinee population. This index ranges from 0 to 1, with values close to 1 indicating the item pool presents optimum items to examinees throughout the…
Descriptors: Item Banks, Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Error of Measurement
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Choi, Seung W.; Grady, Matthew W.; Dodd, Barbara G. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2011
The goal of the current study was to introduce a new stopping rule for computerized adaptive testing (CAT). The predicted standard error reduction (PSER) stopping rule uses the predictive posterior variance to determine the reduction in standard error that would result from the administration of additional items. The performance of the PSER was…
Descriptors: Item Banks, Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Evaluation Methods
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Chang, Shu-Ren; Plake, Barbara S.; Kramer, Gene A.; Lien, Shu-Mei – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2011
This study examined the amount of time that different ability-level examinees spend on questions they answer correctly or incorrectly across different pretest item blocks presented on a fixed-length, time-restricted computerized adaptive testing (CAT). Results indicate that different ability-level examinees require different amounts of time to…
Descriptors: Evidence, Test Items, Reaction Time, Adaptive Testing
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Lord, Frederic M. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1971
Descriptors: Ability, Adaptive Testing, Computer Oriented Programs, Difficulty Level