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Direct linkOliveri, Maria Elena; Lawless, Rene; Robin, Frederic; Bridgeman, Brent – Applied Measurement in Education, 2018
We analyzed a pool of items from an admissions test for differential item functioning (DIF) for groups based on age, socioeconomic status, citizenship, or English language status using Mantel-Haenszel and item response theory. DIF items were systematically examined to identify its possible sources by item type, content, and wording. DIF was…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Comparative Analysis, Item Banks, Item Response Theory
Download full textGao, Rui; He, Wei; Ruan, Chunyi – ETS Research Report Series, 2012
In this study, we investigated whether preequating results agree with equating results that are based on observed operational data (postequating) for a college placement program. Specifically, we examined the degree to which item response theory (IRT) true score preequating results agreed with those from IRT true score postequating and from…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Student Placement, Item Response Theory, True Scores
Sebrechts, Marc M.; And Others – 1991
This study evaluated agreement between expert system and human scores on 12 algebra word problems taken by Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) General Test examinees from a general sample of 285 and a study sample of 30. Problems were drawn from three content classes (rate x time, work, and interest) and presented in four constructed-response…
Descriptors: Algebra, Automation, College Students, Computer Assisted Testing
Sebrechts, Marc M.; And Others – 1993
The construct validity of algebra word problems for measuring quantitative reasoning was examined, focusing on an analysis of problem attributes and on the analysis of constructed-response solutions. Constructed-response solutions to 20 problems from the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) General Test were collected from 51 undergraduates.…
Descriptors: Algebra, Cognitive Processes, Construct Validity, Constructed Response
Bennett, Randy Elliot; And Others – 1991
This exploratory study applied two new cognitively sensitive measurement models to constructed-response quantitative data. The models, intended to produce qualitative characteristics of examinee performance, were fitted to algebra word problem solutions produced by 285 examinees taking the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) General Test. The two…
Descriptors: Algebra, College Entrance Examinations, College Students, Constructed Response
Bennett, Randy Elliot; Sebrechts, Marc M. – 1994
This study evaluated expert system diagnoses of examinees' solutions to complex constructed-response algebra word problems. Problems were presented to three samples (30 college students each), each of which had taken the Graduate Record Examinations General Test. One sample took the problems in paper-and-pencil form and the other two on computer.…
Descriptors: Algebra, Automation, Classification, College Entrance Examinations
Sebrechts, Marc M.; And Others – 1993
This report describes the development of a new tool for assessment research in graduate education. The tool, the Algebra Assessment System, is based on GIDE, a pre-existing program that diagnostically analyzes complex constructed responses to algebra word problems. The project had three goals. The first goal was to build a generically usable…
Descriptors: Algebra, College Entrance Examinations, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Interfaces
