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Item Difficulty Modeling of Paragraph Comprehension Items
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Gorin, Joanna S.; Embretson, Susan E. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 2006
Recent assessment research joining cognitive psychology and psychometric theory has introduced a new technology, item generation. In algorithmic item generation, items are systematically created based on specific combinations of features that underlie the processing required to correctly solve a problem. Reading comprehension items have been more…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Test Items, Modeling (Psychology), Paragraph Composition