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Gnambs, Timo; Batinic, Bernad – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2011
Computer-adaptive classification tests focus on classifying respondents in different proficiency groups (e.g., for pass/fail decisions). To date, adaptive classification testing has been dominated by research on dichotomous response formats and classifications in two groups. This article extends this line of research to polytomous classification…
Descriptors: Test Length, Computer Assisted Testing, Classification, Test Items
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Wang, Wen-Chung; Liu, Chen-Wei – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2011
The generalized graded unfolding model (GGUM) has been recently developed to describe item responses to Likert items (agree-disagree) in attitude measurement. In this study, the authors (a) developed two item selection methods in computerized classification testing under the GGUM, the current estimate/ability confidence interval method and the cut…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Adaptive Testing, Classification, Item Response Theory
Qian, Hong – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation includes three essays: one essay focuses on the effect of teacher preparation programs on teacher knowledge while the other two focus on test-takers' response times on test items. Essay One addresses the problem of how opportunities to learn in teacher preparation programs influence future elementary mathematics teachers'…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
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Spineti, John P.; Hambleton, Ronald K. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1977
The effectiveness of various tailored testing strategies for use in objective based instructional programs was investigated. The three factors of a tailored testing strategy under study with various hypothetical distributions of abilities across two learning hierarchies were test length, mastery cutting score, and starting point. (Author/JKS)
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Criterion Referenced Tests, Cutting Scores
Vos, Hans J. – 1997
The purpose of this paper is to derive optimal rules for variable-length mastery tests in case three mastery classification decisions (nonmastery, partial mastery, and mastery) are distinguished. In a variable-length or adaptive mastery test, the decision is to classify a subject as a master, a partial master, a nonmaster, or continuing sampling…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Classification, Computer Assisted Testing, Concept Formation
Mills, Craig N.; Simon, Robert – 1981
When criterion-referenced tests are used to assign examinees to states reflecting their performance level on a test, the better known methods for determining test length, which consider relationships among domain scores and errors of measurement, have their limitations. The purpose of this paper is to present a computer system named TESTLEN, which…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Criterion Referenced Tests, Cutting Scores, Error of Measurement
Reckase, Mark D. – 1981
This report describes a study comparing the classification results obtained from a one-parameter and three-parameter logistic based tailored testing procedure used in conjunction with Wald's sequential probability ratio test (SPRT). Eighty-eight college students were classified into four grade categories using achievement test results obtained…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Classification, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing
Eignor, Daniel R.; Hambleton, Ronald K. – 1979
The purpose of the investigation was to obtain some relationships among (1) test lengths, (2) shape of domain-score distributions, (3) advancement scores, and (4) several criterion-referenced test score reliability and validity indices. The study was conducted using computer simulation methods. The values of variables under study were set to be…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing, Criterion Referenced Tests, Cutting Scores
Reshetar, Rosemary A.; And Others – 1992
This study examined performance of a simulated computerized adaptive test that was designed to help direct the development of a medical recertification examination. The item pool consisted of 229 single-best-answer items from a random sample of 3,000 examinees, calibrated using the two-parameter logistic model. Examinees' responses were known. For…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Classification, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Simulation
Frick, Theodore W. – 1986
The sequential probability ratio test (SPRT), developed by Abraham Wald, is one statistical model available for making mastery decisions during computer-based criterion referenced tests. The predictive validity of the SPRT was empirically investigated with two different and relatively large item pools with heterogeneous item parameters. Graduate…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adaptive Testing, Classification, Comparative Analysis