This document defines performance testing as the task of determining how well performance objectives are mastered by learners. Examples are provided for teachers who have to conduct performance testing with industrial standards. Stress is laid on communicating and exchanging materials with colleagues. A reporting form is included which shows how…

This symposium consists of five papers and presents some recent developments in adaptive testing which have applications to several military testing problems. The overview, by James R. McBride, defines adaptive testing and discusses some of its item selection and scoring strategies. Item response theory, or item characteristic curve theory, is…