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Download full textShermis, Mark D.; Mzumara, Howard; Brown, Mike; Lillig, Clo – 1997
An important problem facing institutions of higher education is the number of students reporting that they are not adequately prepared for the difficulty of college-level courses. To meet this problem, a computerized adaptive testing package was developed that permitted remote placement testing of high school students via the World Wide Web. The…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Adolescents, Computer Assisted Testing, High Schools
Thompson, Janet G.; Weiss, David J. – 1980
The relative validity of adaptive and conventional testing strategies using non-test variables as one set of external criteria was investigated. A total of 101 college students completed both a variable length stradaptive test and peaked conventional test; a second group of 131 college students completed a variable length Bayesian adaptive test…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adaptive Testing, College Entrance Examinations, Computer Assisted Testing
