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Rosso, Martin A.; Reckase, Mark D. – 1981
The overall purpose of this research was to compare a maximum likelihood based tailored testing procedure to a Bayesian tailored testing procedure. The results indicated that both tailored testing procedures produced equally reliable ability estimates. Also an analysis of test length indicated that reasonable ability estimates could be obtained…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Bayesian Statistics, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing