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Hankins, Janette A. – Journal of Employment Counseling, 1990
Describes Florida's efforts at instituting statewide item banking and testing program in vocational education. Discusses rationale for statewide testing program and item banking procedure as well as development and coding of items, dissemination of item bank to school districts, and development of statewide test. Outlines problems encountered,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Item Analysis, Item Banks, Test Construction

Kelley, Paul R.; Schumacher, Charles F. – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1984
The National Board of Medical Examiners uses the Rasch model to calibrate test items, maintain item banks, equate scores, and monitor the consistency of examiner item response patterns. The model is also being used in the study of patient management problems examinations, standard-setting, and computer-based examinations. (Author/BS)
Descriptors: Item Analysis, Item Banks, Latent Trait Theory, Mathematical Models
Jones, Bernard G.; Gramenz, Gary W. – Spectrum, 1983
Describes procedure for combining Stanford Achievement Test items with local supplementary items to measure individual and aggregate student performance in mathematics. Two reports are generated from the test results: a diagnostic report of student mastery of each objective and an overall score. (TE)
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Item Analysis, Item Banks
Forster, Fred – 1978
Criticisms of norm referenced standardized tests are contrasted with the assumption and claims of proponents of Rasch model testing and item banking. The Rasch test theory model is based on the assumption of equal interval curriculum referenced scales for both students' abilities and test item difficulties. The Portland school district has…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Equated Scores
Hills, John R.; Beard, Jacob B. – 1984
This study investigated the feasibility of the use of the three-parameter item response theory (IRT) model in Florida's minimum competency testing program. The paper includes the following sections: (1) a description of the procedures currently being used by the assessment program, with an emphasis on procedures currently involving the Rasch…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Equated Scores, Feasibility Studies, Guessing (Tests)
McLean, Les – 1985
Data gathered from large-scale assessments in the Ontario Assessment Instrument Pool (OAIP) are examined. Implications for science instruction are to be found at the item level; the items should not involve more than two or three steps if the responses are to be informative. Items are collected and linked to provincial curriculum guidelines. These…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Instructional Improvement, Item Analysis, Item Banks
Matter, M. Kevin; Ligon, Glynn – 1984
This paper describes the development of the Basic Educational Skills Test (BEST) in the Austin Independent School District. In 1982 future options for the AISD minimum competency program, which requires all students to meet minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics before graduation, were evaluated against legal and local criteria. It…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Board of Education Policy, Graduation Requirements, High Schools
Hills, John R.; And Others – 1985
This study investigated the feasibility of using the three-parameter model in Florida's minimum competency testing program. LOGIST 4 was used to analyze 1984 Statewide Student Assessment Tests (SSAT)-II data, exploring possibilities that easiness of the test would cause problems in the estimation of the a and c parameters. These problems and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Equated Scores, Feasibility Studies, Goodness of Fit
Wongbundhit, Yuwadee – 1985
Before an item bank is constructed, several curriculum and testing considerations should be addressed. Such issues include the number of students enrolled in the selected subject area; number of desired objectives and items per objective; method of storing the items; and how and when to train how many teachers in item writing. The following steps…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Reckase, Mark D. – 1977
Latent trait model calibration procedures were used on data obtained from a group testing program. The one-parameter model of Wright and Panchapakesan and the three-parameter logistic model of Wingersky, Wood, and Lord were selected for comparison. These models and their corresponding estimation procedures were compared, using actual and simulated…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adaptive Testing, Aptitude Tests, Comparative Analysis
Cliff, Norman; And Others – 1977
TAILOR is a computer program that uses the implied orders concept as the basis for computerized adaptive testing. The basic characteristics of TAILOR, which does not involve pretesting, are reviewed here and two studies of it are reported. One is a Monte Carlo simulation based on the four-parameter Birnbaum model and the other uses a matrix of…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Programs, Difficulty Level