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Al-A'ali, Mansoor – Educational Technology & Society, 2007
Computer adaptive testing is the study of scoring tests and questions based on assumptions concerning the mathematical relationship between examinees' ability and the examinees' responses. Adaptive student tests, which are based on item response theory (IRT), have many advantages over conventional tests. We use the least square method, a…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Higher Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Student Evaluation
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Prestwood, Stephen J. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 1979
Undergraduate students were administered one of three conventional or one of three stratified adaptive vocabulary tests with or without knowledge of results. Results indicated that knowledge of results and test difficulty affected performance. (Author/JKS)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Computers