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CATs, Testlets, and Test Construction: A Rationale for Putting Test Developers Back into CAT.
Wainer, Howard; Kiely, Gerard L. – 1986
Recent experience with the Computerized Adaptive Test (CAT) has raised a number of concerns about its practical applications. The concerns are principally involved with the concept of having the computer construct the test from a precalibrated item pool, and substituting statistical characteristics for the test developer's skills. Problems with…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Algorithms, Computer Assisted Testing, Construct Validity