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Peer reviewedPyrczak, Fred – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1974
Descriptors: Item Sampling, Paragraphs, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests
Peer reviewedScott, William A. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1972
Descriptors: Item Sampling, Mathematical Applications, Scoring Formulas, Statistical Analysis
Berk, Ronald A. – 1978
Sixteen item statistics recommended for use in the development of criterion-referenced tests were evaluated. There were two major criteria: (1) practicability in terms of ease of computation and interpretation and (2) meaningfulness in the context of the development process. Most of the statistics were based on a comparison of performance changes…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests, Difficulty Level, Guides
Harris, Chester W.; And Others – 1977
The implications of a mathematical model of test scores are explored where the data are limited to a random sample of items without replacement from an indefinitely large population or item domain in which items are scored either zero or one. The purpose is to obtain an unbiased estimate of a student's proportion of items correct in the item…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliographies
Theunissen, Phiel J. J. M. – 1983
Any systematic approach to the assessment of students' ability implies the use of a model. The more explicit the model is, the more its users know about what they are doing and what the consequences are. The Rasch model is a strong model where measurement is a bonus of the model itself. It is based on four ideas: (1) separation of observable…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Difficulty Level, Evaluation Criteria, Item Sampling
