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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"computer adaptive testing"”.
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The Impact of Local Item Dependence on Computer Adaptive Testing given Between and Within Testlet Adaptivity
… very common in educational tests. Additionally, computerized adaptive testing (CAT) is a mode of testing where the test forms are created in real time tailoring to the test taker's previous responses. CATs have gained popularity because they produce a more accurate test score estimate within a …
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A perspective on the theoretical foundations and pedagogical applications in computer adaptive testing of second and foreign language writing proficiency
… writing of single, timed essays and computer revising of multiple, non-timed essays. Of central focus along the way are the following conundrums inherent in particular to writing instruction and assessment: (a) process vs. product approach, (b) timed vs. non-timed writing, (c) …
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Detecting Local Item Dependence in Polytomous Adaptive Data
… items. In particular, there is interest in computer adaptive testing (CAT). Meeting model assumptions is necessary to realize the benefits of IRT in this setting, however. Although initial investigations of local item dependence (LID) have been studied both for polytomous items in fixed-form …
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The Development of a Computer Adaptive Test Of the Five Factor Model of Personality: Applications and Extensions
… fatigue, and ultimately, poor data quality. Computer adaptive testing offers a solution to the test fatigue problem by administering only the items that are informative for that examinee on a given scale. A new test based upon the FFM of normal personality administered in a computer adaptive …
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Assessing Student Learning with Technology: A Descriptive Study of Technology-Using Teacher Practice and Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)
… this adoption came the opportunity to utilize computer-delivered and computer-adaptive testing. Although the computer-based assessments were intended to assist teachers in designing classroom assessments and using student data to inform instructional practice, teacher-reported data indicated …
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Optimizing Classification Decisions for Paper-and-Pencil and Computer Adaptive Tests
Throughout the social sciences, tests have been used for two primary - and different - purposes: a) to estimate where an examinee is located on an ability/trait continuum (e.g., intelligence tests), or b) to classify an examinee as either above or below a particular point on the ability continuum …
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Using response times in CAT
This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2017-05-30 at 16:05.
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Optimal item pool design for a highly constrained computerized adaptive test
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Measurement and Quantitative Methods, 2010
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Development of matrices abstract reasoning items to assess fluid intelligence
… the foundation for the future development of computer adaptive versions of Raven’s Progressive Matrices. Part 3 introduces the development of an automatic matrix item generator and illustrates the results of the analyses of the items generated using the distribution-of-three rule. Psychometric …