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Download full textBejar, Isaac I. – 1985
The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) was used in this study, which attempted to develop a new methodology for assessing the speededness of right-scored tests. Traditional procedures of assessing speededness have assumed that the test is scored under formula-scoring instructions; this approach is not always appropriate. In this study,…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, English (Second Language), Estimation (Mathematics), Evaluation Methods
Spray, Judith A.; Reckase, Mark D. – 1994
The issue of test-item selection in support of decision making in adaptive testing is considered. The number of items needed to make a decision is compared for two approaches: selecting items from an item pool that are most informative at the decision point or selecting items that are most informative at the examinee's ability level. The first…
Descriptors: Ability, Adaptive Testing, Bayesian Statistics, Computer Assisted Testing
