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Sympson, J. Bradford; Haladyna, Thomas M. – 1988
A new approach to polychotomous scoring of test items, similar to "max-alpha" scaling (MAS) and known as polyweighting, has been developed. Unlike MAS, this new method of polychotomous scoring provides scoring weights for a given item that are independent of the difficulty of other items in the analysis. Moreover, the scoring weights are…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Difficulty Level, Item Analysis, Latent Trait Theory
Download full textRippey, Robert M. – 1971
Technical improvements, which may be made in the reliability and validity of tests through confidence scores, are discussed. However, studies indicate that subjects do not handle their confidence uniformly. (MS)
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Confidence Testing, Correlation, Difficulty Level
