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Glamocic, Džana Salibašic; Mešic, Vanes; Neumann, Knut; Sušac, Ana; Boone, William J.; Aviani, Ivica; Hasovic, Elvedin; Erceg, Nataša; Repnik, Robert; Grubelnik, Vladimir – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
Item banks are generally considered the basis of a new generation of educational measurement. In combination with specialized software, they can facilitate the computerized assembling of multiple pre-equated test forms. However, for advantages of item banks to become fully realized it is important that the item banks store a relatively large…
Descriptors: Item Banks, Test Items, Item Response Theory, Item Sampling
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Bashkov, Bozhidar M.; Clauser, Jerome C. – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2019
Successful testing programs rely on high-quality test items to produce reliable scores and defensible exams. However, determining what statistical screening criteria are most appropriate to support these goals can be daunting. This study describes and demonstrates cost-benefit analysis as an empirical approach to determining appropriate screening…
Descriptors: Test Items, Test Reliability, Evaluation Criteria, Accuracy
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Jiang, Yu; Zhang, Jiahui; Xin, Tao – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2019
This article is an overview of the National Assessment of Education Quality (NAEQ) of China in reading, mathematics, sciences, arts, physical education, and moral education at Grades 4 and 8. After a review of the background and history of NAEQ, we present the assessment framework with students' holistic development at the core and the design for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Educational Improvement, National Competency Tests
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Özyurt, Hacer; Özyurt, Özcan – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2015
Problem Statement: Learning-teaching activities bring along the need to determine whether they achieve their goals. Thus, multiple choice tests addressing the same set of questions to all are frequently used. However, this traditional assessment and evaluation form contrasts with modern education, where individual learning characteristics are…
Descriptors: Probability, Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Item Response Theory
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Kim, Sooyeon; Livingston, Samuel A. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2010
Score equating based on small samples of examinees is often inaccurate for the examinee populations. We conducted a series of resampling studies to investigate the accuracy of five methods of equating in a common-item design. The methods were chained equipercentile equating of smoothed distributions, chained linear equating, chained mean equating,…
Descriptors: Equated Scores, Test Items, Item Sampling, Item Response Theory
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Huitzing, Hiddo A. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 2004
This article shows how set covering with item sampling (SCIS) methods can be used in the analysis and preanalysis of linear programming models for test assembly (LPTA). LPTA models can construct tests, fulfilling a set of constraints set by the test assembler. Sometimes, no solution to the LPTA model exists. The model is then said to be…
Descriptors: Mathematical Applications, Simulation, Item Sampling, Item Response Theory
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Revuelta, Javier – Psychometrika, 2004
Two psychometric models are presented for evaluating the difficulty of the distractors in multiple-choice items. They are based on the criterion of rising distractor selection ratios, which facilitates interpretation of the subject and item parameters. Statistical inferential tools are developed in a Bayesian framework: modal a posteriori…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Psychometrics, Models, Difficulty Level
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Cliff, Norman; Donoghue, John R. – Psychometrika, 1992
A test theory using only ordinal assumptions is presented, based on the idea that the test items are a sample from a universe of items. The sum across items of the ordinal relations for a pair of persons on the universe items is analogous to a true score. (SLD)
Descriptors: Equations (Mathematics), Estimation (Mathematics), Item Response Theory, Item Sampling
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Vigneau, Francois; Bors, Douglas A. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2005
The problem of dimensionality with respect to Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices (APM) specifically and, more generally, "g" or fluid intelligence, has been a long-standing issue. The present article reports two studies examining the dimensionality of both the original Set II of the APM (n = 506) and a short form (n = 644), using principal…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Item Response Theory, Intelligence Tests, Test Items