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Albano, Anthony D.; Cai, Liuhan; Lease, Erin M.; McConnell, Scott R. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2019
Studies have shown that item difficulty can vary significantly based on the context of an item within a test form. In particular, item position may be associated with practice and fatigue effects that influence item parameter estimation. The purpose of this research was to examine the relevance of item position specifically for assessments used in…
Descriptors: Test Items, Computer Assisted Testing, Item Analysis, Difficulty Level
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Shermis, Mark D.; Lottridge, Sue; Mayfield, Elijah – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2015
This study investigated the impact of anonymizing text on predicted scores made by two kinds of automated scoring engines: one that incorporates elements of natural language processing (NLP) and one that does not. Eight data sets (N = 22,029) were used to form both training and test sets in which the scoring engines had access to both text and…
Descriptors: Scoring, Essays, Computer Assisted Testing, Natural Language Processing