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Orcutt, Venetia L. – 2002
The emergence of enhanced capabilities in computer technology coupled with the growing body of knowledge regarding item response theory has resulted in the expansion of computerized adaptive test (CAT) utilization in a variety of venues. Newcomers to the field need a more thorough understanding of item response theory (IRT) principles, their…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Item Response Theory, Test Construction
van der Linden, Wim J.; Chang, Hua-Hua – 2001
The methods of alpha-stratified adaptive testing and constrained adaptive testing with shadow tests are combined in this study. The advantages are twofold. First, application of the shadow test allows the researcher to implement any type of constraint on item selection in alpha-stratified adaptive testing. Second, the result yields a simple set of…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Item Banks, Selection
Wang, Shudong; Wang, Tianyou – 2002
The purpose of this Monte Carlo study was to evaluate the relative accuracy of T. Warm's weighted likelihood estimate (WLE) compared to maximum likelihood estimate (MLE), expected a posteriori estimate (EAP), and maximum a posteriori estimate (MAP), using the generalized partial credit model (GPCM) and graded response model (GRM) under a variety…
Descriptors: Ability, Adaptive Testing, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing
Veldkamp, Bernard P. – 2000
A mathematical programming approach is presented for computer adaptive testing (CAT) with many constraints on the item and test attributes. Because mathematical programming problems have to be solved while the examinee waits for the next item, a fast implementation of the Branch-and-Bound algorithm is needed for this approach. Eight modifications…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Algorithms, Computer Assisted Testing, Test Construction
van Krimpen-Stoop, Edith M. L. A.; Meijer, Rob R. – 1999
Item scores that do not fit an assumed item response theory model may cause the latent trait value to be estimated inaccurately. Several person-fit statistics for detecting nonfitting score patterns for paper-and-pencil tests have been proposed. In the context of computerized adaptive tests (CAT), the use of person-fit analysis has hardly been…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Estimation (Mathematics), Item Response Theory

Polloway, Edward A.; Epstein, Michael H.; Bursuck, William D. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 2003
Considers how the movement toward inclusive classrooms has enhanced significantly disabled students' opportunities for increased social interaction with their peers and it coincidentally has brought with it learning and achievement challenges for students as well as for their teachers and parents. Finds that the concept of treatment acceptability…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Inclusive Schools, Interpersonal Relationship

Zwick, Rebecca – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1997
Recent simulations have shown that, for a given sample size, the Mantel-Haenszel (MH) variances tend to be larger when items are administered to randomly selected examinees than when they are administered adaptively. Results suggest that adaptive testing may lead to more efficient application of MH differential item functioning analyses. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Item Bias, Sample Size, Simulation

Veldkamp, Bernard P.; van der Linden, Wim J. – Psychometrika, 2002
Examined the case of adaptive testing under a multidimensional response model with large numbers of constraints on the content of the test and items selected using a shadow test approach. Illustrated the procedure with five different cases of multidimensionality that differ in the numbers of ability dimensions and test structure with respect of…
Descriptors: Ability, Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Test Construction

van der Linden, Wim J. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 1998
Reviews optimal test-assembly literature and introduces the contributions to this special issue. Discusses four approaches to computerized test assembly: (1) heuristic-based test assembly; (2) 0-1 linear programming; (3) network-flow programming; and (4) an optimal design approach. Contains a bibliography of 90 sources on test assembly.…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Heuristics, Linear Programming

Stocking, Martha L.; Swanson, Len – Applied Psychological Measurement, 1998
Applied optimal design methods to the item-bank design of adaptive testing for continuous testing situations using a version of the weighted-deviations model (M. Stocking and L. Swanson, 1993) in a simulation. Independent and overlapping item banks used items more efficiently than did a large item bank. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Item Banks, Simulation

Stocking, Martha L.; Lewis, Charles – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 1998
Ensuring item and pool security in a continuous testing environment is explored through a new method of controlling exposure rate of items conditional on ability level in computerized testing. Properties of this conditional control on exposure rate, when used in conjunction with a particular adaptive testing algorithm, are explored using simulated…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Algorithms, Computer Assisted Testing, Difficulty Level

Lunz, Mary E.; Bergstrom, Betty – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1995
Describes a study that was conducted to track the effect of candidate response patterns on a computerized adaptive test. The effect of altering responses on estimated candidate ability, test tailoring, and test precision across segments of adaptive tests and groups of candidates is examined. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Response Style (Tests)

Bradlow, Eric T. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 1996
The three-parameter logistic (3-PL) model is described and a derivation of the 3-PL observed information function is presented for a single binary response from one examinee with known item parameters. Formulas are presented for the probability of negative information and for the expected information (always nonnegative). (SLD)
Descriptors: Ability, Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Item Response Theory

Veerkamp, Wim J. J. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2000
Showed how Taylor approximation can be used to generate a linear approximation to a logistic item characteristic curve and a linear ability estimator. Demonstrated how, for a specific simulation, this could result in the special case of a Robbins-Monro item selection procedure for adaptive testing. (SLD)
Descriptors: Ability, Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Selection

van der Linden, Wim J. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 2001
Presents a constrained computerized adaptive testing (CAT) algorithm that can be used to equate CAT number-correct scores to a reference test. Used an item bank from the Law School Admission Test to compare results of the algorithm with those for equipercentile observed-score equating. Discusses advantages of the approach. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Algorithms, Computer Assisted Testing, Equated Scores