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Making Use of Response Times in Standardized Tests: Are Accuracy and Speed Measuring the Same Thing?
Download full textScrams, David J.; Schnipke, Deborah L. – 1997
Response accuracy and response speed provide separate measures of performance. Psychometricians have tended to focus on accuracy with the goal of characterizing examinees on the basis of their ability to respond correctly to items from a given content domain. With the advent of computerized testing, response times can now be recorded unobtrusively…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Difficulty Level, Item Response Theory, Psychometrics
