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Direct linkKirsch, Irwin; Lennon, Mary Louise – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2017
As the largest and most innovative international assessment of adults, PIAAC marks an inflection point in the evolution of large-scale comparative assessments. PIAAC grew from the foundation laid by surveys that preceded it, and introduced innovations that have shifted the way we conceive and implement large-scale assessments. As the first fully…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Adults, Measurement, Surveys
OECD Publishing, 2013
The Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) has been planned as an ongoing program of assessment. The first cycle of the assessment has involved two "rounds." The first round, which is covered by this report, took place over the period of January 2008-October 2013. The main features of the first cycle of…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Adults, Skills, Test Construction
Peer reviewedMosenthal, Peter B. – American Educational Research Journal, 1998
The extent to which variables from a previous study (P. Mosenthal, 1996) on document processing influenced difficulty on 165 tasks from the pose scales of five national adult literacy scales was studied. Three process variables accounted for 78% of the variance when prose task difficulty was defined using level scores. Implications for computer…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Adults, Computer Assisted Testing, Definitions
Sympson, J. B.; Hartmann, Loralee – 1982
In connection with the development of item pools for the Navy's experimental Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) system, items in five different content areas (General Science, Paragraph Composition, Word Knowledge, Math Knowledge, and Arithmetic Reasoning) have been calibrated using item response theory (IRT) methodology. Operational Armed…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Adults, Computer Assisted Testing, Estimation (Mathematics)
Green, Bert F.; And Others – 1985
The Navy Personnel Research and Development Center is developing a computerized adaptive test (CAT) administration, scoring, and reporting system for use in the selection and classification of military applicants. Scaling of the CAT version of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) will produce CAT scores comparable to the current…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Adults, Aptitude Tests, Computer Assisted Testing
Stock, Steven E.; Davies, Daniel K.; Wehmeyer, Michael L. – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2004
Assessment has always been an integral component of the educational process, but the importance to students of performing effectively on district and statewide tests has increased the visibility of testing and assessment for students with and without disabilities. There are several factors that limit the reliability of common testing formats for…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Mental Retardation, Adaptive Testing, Evaluation Methods
McBride, James R.; Sympson, J. B. – 1982
The Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) project is a joint Armed Services coordinated effort to develop and evaluate a system for automated, adaptive administration of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB). The CAT is a system for administering personnel tests that differs from conventional test administration in two major…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Adults, Armed Forces, Computer Assisted Testing
Download full textBergstrom, Betty; And Others – 1994
Examinee response times from a computerized adaptive test taken by 204 examinees taking a certification examination were analyzed using a hierarchical linear model. Two equations were posed: a within-person model and a between-person model. Variance within persons was eight times greater than variance between persons. Several variables…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Adults, Certification, Computer Assisted Testing
Schratz, Mary K. – 1986
A computerized adaptive testing version of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (CAT-ASVAB) is being developed to test ten areas of vocational aptitude. Development of the CAT-ASVAB is based upon the use of item banks, testing and scoring procedures, assessment of test reliability and test validity, a technical manual, and the…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Adults, Aptitude Tests, Computer Assisted Testing
Yale, David C. – 1985
A computerized testing system was installed on an experimental basis at the Basic Electricity and Electronics School of the Naval Training Center in San Diego. The system consisted of a network of IBM Personal Computers running a slightly modified version of the commercially available MicroCAT Testing System. It was configured to fit transparently…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adaptive Testing, Adults, Computer Assisted Instruction
Weiss, David J. – 1983
During 1975-1979 this research into the potential of computerized adaptive testing to reduce errors in the measurement of human capabilities used Marine recruits for a live-testing validity comparison of computerized adaptive and conventional tests. The program purposes were to: (1) identify the most useful computer-based adaptive testing…
Descriptors: Ability, Adaptive Testing, Adults, Bayesian Statistics
Hicks, Marilyn M. – 1989
Methods of computerized adaptive testing using conventional scoring methods in order to develop a computerized placement test for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) were studied. As a consequence of simulation studies during the first phase of the study, the multilevel testing paradigm was adopted to produce three test levels…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Adults, Algorithms, Computer Assisted Testing
Tasse, Marc J.; And Others – 1994
Multilog (Thissen, 1991) was used to estimate parameters of 225 items from the Quebec Adaptive Behavior Scale (QABS). A database containing actual data from 2,439 subjects was used for the parameterization procedures. The two-parameter-logistic model was used in estimating item parameters and in the testing strategy. MicroCAT (Assessment Systems…
Descriptors: Ability, Adaptive Testing, Adjustment (to Environment), Adults
