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Direct linkJudd, Wallace – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2009
Over the past twenty years in performance testing a specific item type with distinguishing characteristics has arisen time and time again. It's been invented independently by dozens of test development teams. And yet this item type is not recognized in the research literature. This article is an invitation to investigate the item type, evaluate…
Descriptors: Test Items, Test Format, Evaluation, Item Analysis
Peer reviewedStone, Gregory Ethan; Lunz, Mary E. – Applied Measurement in Education, 1994
Effects of reviewing items and altering responses on examinee ability estimates, test precision, test information, decision confidence, and pass/fail status were studied for 376 examinees taking 2 certification tests. Test precision is only slightly affected by review, and average information loss can be recovered by addition of one item. (SLD)
Descriptors: Ability, Adaptive Testing, Certification, Change
Download full textBergstrom, Betty A.; Gershon, Richard – 1992
The most useful method of item selection for making pass-fail decisions with a Computerized Adaptive Test (CAT) was studied. Medical technology students (n=86) took a computer adaptive test in which items were targeted to the ability of the examinee. The adaptive algorithm that selected items and estimated person measures used the Rasch model and…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Algorithms, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing
Peer reviewedBergstrom, Betty A.; Lunz, Mary E. – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1992
The level of confidence in pass/fail decisions obtained with computerized adaptive tests and paper-and-pencil tests was greater for 645 medical technology students when the computer adaptive test implemented a 90 percent confidence stopping rule than for paper-and-pencil tests of comparable length. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Comparative Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Confidence Testing
Lunz, Mary E.; And Others – 1991
This paper explores the effect of reviewing items and altering responses on the efficiency of computer adaptive tests (CATs) and the resultant ability measures of examinees. Subjects included 712 medical students: 220 subjects were randomly assigned to the review condition; 492 were randomly assigned to a review control condition (the usual CAT…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Adaptive Testing, Certification, Comparative Testing
Reshetar, Rosemary A.; And Others – 1992
This study examined performance of a simulated computerized adaptive test that was designed to help direct the development of a medical recertification examination. The item pool consisted of 229 single-best-answer items from a random sample of 3,000 examinees, calibrated using the two-parameter logistic model. Examinees' responses were known. For…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Classification, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Simulation
Bergstrom, Betty A.; Lunz, Mary E. – 1991
The level of confidence in pass/fail decisions obtained with computer adaptive tests (CATs) was compared to decisions based on paper-and-pencil tests. Subjects included 645 medical technology students from 238 educational programs across the country. The tests used in this study constituted part of the subjects' review for the certification…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Certification, Comparative Testing, Computer Assisted Testing
