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Wang, Yu; Chiu, Chia-Yi; Köhn, Hans Friedrich – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2023
The multiple-choice (MC) item format has been widely used in educational assessments across diverse content domains. MC items purportedly allow for collecting richer diagnostic information. The effectiveness and economy of administering MC items may have further contributed to their popularity not just in educational assessment. The MC item format…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Nonparametric Statistics, Test Format, Educational Assessment
Krass, Iosif A.; Thomasson, Gary L. – 1999
New items are being calibrated for the next generation of the computerized adaptive (CAT) version of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) (Forms 5 and 6). The requirements that the items be "good" three-parameter logistic (3-PL) model items and typically "like" items in the previous CAT-ASVAB tests have…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Algorithms, Computer Assisted Testing, Nonparametric Statistics