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Download full textSchnipke, Deborah L.; Scrams, David J. – 1999
Speededness refers to the extent to which time limits affect test takers' performance. With regard to the Law School Admission Test (LSAT), speededness is currently measured by calculating the proportion of test takers who do not reach each item on the test. These proportions typically increase slightly toward the end of the test, indicating that…
Descriptors: Admission (School), College Entrance Examinations, Guessing (Tests), Law Schools
Schnikpe, Deborah L.; Scrams, David J. – 1999
The unobtrusive recording of item response times is one of the many advantages offered by computerized test administration. This report is a broad review of psychometric literature on response times. The review is not exhaustive, but does provide a sample of work that has been done. The review is organized into seven sections: (1) scoring models;…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Item Response Theory, Law Schools, Psychometrics
van der Linden, Wim J.; Scrams, David J.; Schnipke, Deborah L. – 2003
This paper proposes an item selection algorithm that can be used to neutralize the effect of time limits in computer adaptive testing. The method is based on a statistical model for the response-time distributions of the test takers on the items in the pool that is updated each time a new item has been administered. Predictions from the model are…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Algorithms, Computer Assisted Testing, Linear Programming
Peer reviewedvan der Linden, Wim J.; Scrams, David J.; Schnipke, Deborah L. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 1999
Proposes an item-selection algorithm for neutralizing the differential effects of time limits on computerized adaptive test scores. Uses a statistical model for distributions of examinees' response times on items in a bank that is updated each time an item is administered. Demonstrates the method using an item bank from the Armed Services…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Algorithms, Computer Assisted Testing, Item Banks
Making Use of Response Times in Standardized Tests: Are Accuracy and Speed Measuring the Same Thing?
Scrams, David J.; Schnipke, Deborah L. – 1997
Response accuracy and response speed provide separate measures of performance. Psychometricians have tended to focus on accuracy with the goal of characterizing examinees on the basis of their ability to respond correctly to items from a given content domain. With the advent of computerized testing, response times can now be recorded unobtrusively…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Difficulty Level, Item Response Theory, Psychometrics
Schnipke, Deborah L.; Scrams, David J. – 1999
The availability of item response times made possible by computerized testing represents an entirely new type of information about test items. This study explores the issue of how to represent response-time information in item banks. Empirical response-time distribution functions can be fit with statistical distribution functions with known…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Admission (School), Arithmetic, College Entrance Examinations
