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Download full textGlas, Cees A. W. – 1998
In computerized adaptive testing, updating parameter estimates using adaptive testing data is often called online calibration. In this paper, how to evaluate whether the adaptive testing model used for online calibration fits the item response model used sufficiently is studied. Three approaches are investigated, based on a Lagrange multiplier…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Foreign Countries, Item Response Theory
van der Linden, Wim J. – 1996
R. J. Owen (1975) proposed an approximate empirical Bayes procedure for item selection in adaptive testing. The procedure replaces the true posterior by a normal approximation with closed-form expressions for its first two moments. This approximation was necessary to minimize the computational complexity involved in a fully Bayesian approach, but…
Descriptors: Ability, Adaptive Testing, Bayesian Statistics, Computation
Mislevy, Robert J.; Almond, Russell G. – 1997
This paper synthesizes ideas from the fields of graphical modeling and education testing, particularly item response theory (IRT) applied to computerized adaptive testing (CAT). Graphical modeling can offer IRT a language for describing multifaceted skills and knowledge, and disentangling evidence from complex performances. IRT-CAT can offer…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Testing, Higher Education
Clariana, Roy B.; And Others – 1992
The present study investigated the effects of using different forms of material with 100 eleventh grade students enrolled in a 5-week CBI (computer based instruction) summer enrichment program in Memphis, Tennessee. The basic design consisted of two conditions of instructional support (text and questions vs. questions only), two testings…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Enrichment, Feedback, Grade 11
McArthur, David L. – 1985
The use of computers to build diagnostic inferences is explored in two contexts. In computerized monitoring of liquid oxygen systems for the space shuttle, diagnoses are exact because they can be derived within a world which is closed. In computerized classroom testing of reading comprehension, programs deliver a constrained form of adaptive…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Classroom Research, Computer Assisted Testing, Diagnostic Tests
Stricker, Lawrence J.; Alderton, David L. – 1991
The usefulness of response latency data for biographical inventory items was assessed for improving the inventory's validity. Focus was on assessing whether weighting item scores on the basis of their latencies improves the predictive validity of the inventory's total score. A total of 120 items from the Armed Services Applicant Profile (ASAP)…
Descriptors: Adults, Biographical Inventories, Computer Assisted Testing, Males
Haupt, Edward J.; Jacobowitz, Tina – 1983
More than 100 college students enrolled in a reading and study skills course participated in a study designed to show the effects of retrieval speed on adult reading comprehension. A microcomputer version of the Posner task was used to measure memory retrieval speed, and reading and listening comprehension were measured from McCall-Crabbs…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Computer Assisted Testing, Higher Education
McKinley, Robert L.; Reckase, Mark D. – 1984
The purpose of this paper is to identify and discuss some of the problems presented by the use of computerized adaptive testing (CAT) in an instructional programs environment versus large scale testing applications, and to describe an actual implementation of CAT in an instructional programs setting. This particular application is in the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adaptive Testing, Adults, Computer Assisted Testing
Moreno, Kathleen E.; And Others – 1983
The relationship between selected subtests from the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) and corresponding subtests administered as computerized adaptive tests (CAT) was investigated using a sample of Marine recruits. Results showed that the CAT subtest scores correlated as well with initial ASVAB scores as did ASVAB retest scores,…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Aptitude Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Correlation
Adema, Jos J. – 1989
Item banks, large sets of test items, can be used for the construction of achievement tests. Mathematical programming models have been proposed for the selection of items from an item bank for a test. These models make automated test construction possible. However, to find an optimal or even an approximate optimal solution to a test construction…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Software, Item Banks
De Ayala, R. J.; And Others – 1990
Computerized adaptive testing procedures (CATPs) based on the graded response method (GRM) of F. Samejima (1969) and the partial credit model (PCM) of G. Masters (1982) were developed and compared. Both programs used maximum likelihood estimation of ability, and item selection was conducted on the basis of information. Two simulated data sets, one…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Adaptive Testing, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing
Merrill, Beverly; Peterson, Sarah – 1986
When the Mesa, Arizona Public Schools initiated an ambitious writing instruction program in 1978, two assessments based on student writing samples were developed. The first is based on a ninth grade proficiency test. If the student does not pass the test, high school remediation is provided. After 1987, students must pass this test in order to…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduation Requirements, Holistic Evaluation
Vale, C. David – 1985
The specification of a computerized adaptive test, like the specification of computer-assisted instruction, is easier and can be done by personnel who are not proficient in computer programming if an authoring language is provided. The Minnesota Computerized Adaptive Testing Language (MCATL) is an authoring language specifically designed for…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Authoring Aids (Programing), Branching, Computer Assisted Instruction
Sympson, J. B.; Hartmann, Loralee – 1982
In connection with the development of item pools for the Navy's experimental Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) system, items in five different content areas (General Science, Paragraph Composition, Word Knowledge, Math Knowledge, and Arithmetic Reasoning) have been calibrated using item response theory (IRT) methodology. Operational Armed…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Adults, Computer Assisted Testing, Estimation (Mathematics)
Kress, Roy – 1988
Two trends have emerged in recent years in the diagnosis of remedial readers, which--when applied with caution--may be of reasonable value to the clinician and the teacher. One of these trends has been the promotion of informal assessments, and an accompanying plethora of commercial informal reading inventories (IRIs). These instruments are…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Informal Reading Inventories
