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Lopez-Cuadrado, Javier; Armendariz, Ana J.; Latapy, Marion; Lopisteguy, Philippe – Educational Technology & Society, 2008
This paper discusses the communicative potentials of Computerized Adaptive Testing. The study is based on a model that offers a set of independent communicative concepts to describe the Genre of an interactive application. This model will be the starting point to analyze the stages of the interaction cycle that are typically inherent to every…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Test Construction, Models
Montoya, Aile – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Disability laws such as the American with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 mandate equal access to academic programs, activities, and services for students with disabilities. Therefore, disability laws require that institutions of higher education offer students with learning disabilities (LD)…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Learning Disabilities, Correlation
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Frey, Andreas; Seitz, Nicki-Nils – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2009
The paper gives an overview of multidimensional adaptive testing (MAT) and evaluates its applicability in educational and psychological testing. The approach of Segall (1996) is described as a general framework for MAT. The main advantage of MAT is its capability to increase measurement efficiency. In simulation studies conceptualizing situations…
Descriptors: Psychological Testing, Adaptive Testing, Simulation, Evaluation Methods
Mar, Harvey – National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness, 2010
This fact sheet provides answers to frequently asked questions about psychological evaluations for infants, children and adults who are deaf-blind, we hope to clarify the evaluation process and the active roles that may be taken by everyone who is involved--family members, professionals, educators, and the student. Finally, by discussing quality…
Descriptors: Deaf Blind, Children, Psychological Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Christensen, Laurene L.; Albus, Debra A.; Liu, Kristin K.; Thurlow, Martha L.; Kincaid, Aleksis – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2013
English language learners (ELLs) with disabilities are required to participate in all state and district assessments similar to their peers without disabilities. This includes assessments used for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I accountability purposes for demonstrating proficiency in academic content, assessments used…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, State Policy, Disabilities, Student Participation
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Yi, Qing; Zhang, Jinming; Chang, Hua-Hua – Applied Psychological Measurement, 2008
Criteria had been proposed for assessing the severity of possible test security violations for computerized tests with high-stakes outcomes. However, these criteria resulted from theoretical derivations that assumed uniformly randomized item selection. This study investigated potential damage caused by organized item theft in computerized adaptive…
Descriptors: Test Items, Simulation, Item Analysis, Safety
Donhost, Michael J. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The research on the potential relationship of the Northwest Evaluation Association's Measures of Academic Progress (NWEA MAP) and the Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT) was conducted in two phases and focused on middle schools with a grade configuration of 6-8 in the state of Illinois. The first phase of the research examined whether or…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Educational Assessment, Statistical Analysis
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Ramon Barrada, Juan; Veldkamp, Bernard P.; Olea, Julio – Applied Psychological Measurement, 2009
Computerized adaptive testing is subject to security problems, as the item bank content remains operative over long periods and administration time is flexible for examinees. Spreading the content of a part of the item bank could lead to an overestimation of the examinees' trait level. The most common way of reducing this risk is to impose a…
Descriptors: Item Banks, Adaptive Testing, Item Analysis, Psychometrics
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Yen, Yung-Chin; Ho, Rong-Guey; Chen, Li-Ju; Chou, Kun-Yi; Chen, Yan-Lin – Educational Technology & Society, 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine whether the efficiency, precision, and validity of computerized adaptive testing (CAT) could be improved by assessing confidence differences in knowledge that examinees possessed. We proposed a novel polytomous CAT model called the confidence-weighting computerized adaptive testing (CWCAT), which combined a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Item Response Theory
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Papadima-Sophocleous, Salomi – CALICO Journal, 2008
In recent years, many tertiary institutions have been changing their pen-and-paper English placement test practices into computer based ones. In the process of constructing the University of Nicosia (Intercollege) New English Placement Test Online (NEPTON), we discovered how to redesign our test to include the use of technology. The present…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Belov, Dmitry I.; Armstrong, Ronald D.; Weissman, Alexander – Applied Psychological Measurement, 2008
This article presents a new algorithm for computerized adaptive testing (CAT) when content constraints are present. The algorithm is based on shadow CAT methodology to meet content constraints but applies Monte Carlo methods and provides the following advantages over shadow CAT: (a) lower maximum item exposure rates, (b) higher utilization of the…
Descriptors: Test Items, Monte Carlo Methods, Law Schools, Adaptive Testing
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Milman, Lisa H.; Holland, Audrey; Kaszniak, Alfred W.; D'Agostino, Jerry; Garrett, Merrill; Rapcsak, Steve – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2008
Purpose: The Scales of Cognitive and Communicative Ability for Neurorehabilitation (SCCAN; L. Milman & A. Holland, 2007) was developed in the hospital setting to address changes in assessment practice. The SCCAN was designed to provide an overview of impairment and activity limitations across 8 cognitive scales (Speech Comprehension, Oral…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Alzheimers Disease, Adaptive Testing, Construct Validity
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Wang, Shudong; Jiao, Hong; Young, Michael J.; Brooks, Thomas; Olson, John – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2007
This study conducted a meta-analysis of computer-based and paper-and-pencil administration mode effects on K-12 student mathematics tests. Both initial and final results based on fixed- and random-effects models are presented. The results based on the final selected studies with homogeneous effect sizes show that the administration mode had no…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Mathematics Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Effect Size
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Hendrickson, Amy – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2007
Multistage tests are those in which sets of items are administered adaptively and are scored as a unit. These tests have all of the advantages of adaptive testing, with more efficient and precise measurement across the proficiency scale as well as time savings, without many of the disadvantages of an item-level adaptive test. As a seemingly…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Test Construction, Measurement Techniques, Evaluation Methods
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Passos, Valeria Lima; Berger, Martijn P. F.; Tan, Frans E. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 2007
The early stage of computerized adaptive testing (CAT) refers to the phase of the trait estimation during the administration of only a few items. This phase can be characterized by bias and instability of estimation. In this study, an item selection criterion is introduced in an attempt to lessen this instability: the D-optimality criterion. A…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Items, Item Response Theory, Computer Assisted Testing
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