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Download full textMislevy, Robert J.; Almond, Russell G. – 1997
This paper synthesizes ideas from the fields of graphical modeling and education testing, particularly item response theory (IRT) applied to computerized adaptive testing (CAT). Graphical modeling can offer IRT a language for describing multifaceted skills and knowledge, and disentangling evidence from complex performances. IRT-CAT can offer…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Testing, Higher Education
Larson, Jerry W. – 1987
The development of a Spanish computerized adaptive placement test at Brigham Young University (Utah) is described. The test is based on an approach that locates an examinee's ability along a continuum of latent ability rather than determining the degree to which an individual's ability differs from the abilities of others taking the test, as in…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Higher Education, Language Tests
Laurier, Michel D.; Chung How, Mee Lian – 1995
This paper presents the validation of an adaptive test developed for placement purposes in French at the post-secondary level, the French CAPT. Results from a second experiment are presented in which verbal protocols were obtained from nine college students of various levels with the thinking-aloud technique used during completion of the exam. The…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Advanced Placement, Computer Assisted Testing, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedBrown, James Dean – Language Testing, 1988
The reliability and validity of a cloze procedure used as an English-as-a-second-language (ESL) test in China were improved by applying traditional item analysis and selection techniques. The 'best' test items were chosen on the basis of item facility and discrimination indices, and were administered as a 'tailored cloze.' 29 references listed.…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Cloze Procedure, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Blais, Jean-Guy; Laurier, Michel – 1993
A computerized adaptive test for placement of students in postsecondary French second language courses is evaluated for unidimensionality of its three component tests: reading comprehension of a short paragraph; selection of the appropriate statement in a given situation; and a "fill-in-the-blank" section. A variety of statistical…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Foreign Countries, French
Luk, HingKwan – 1991
This study examined whether an expert system approach involving intelligent selection of items (EXSPRT-I) is as efficient as item response theory (IRT) based three-parameter adaptive mastery testing (AMT) when there are enough subjects to estimate the three IRT item parameters for all items in the test and when subjects in the item parameter…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adaptive Testing, College Entrance Examinations, Comparative Analysis
