Item Clusters and Computerized Adaptive Testing: A Case for Testlets 论文

1987Journal of Educational Measurement引用 632
Psychometric Methodologies and TestingIntelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive LearningAdvanced Statistical Modeling Techniques

详细信息

发表期刊/会议
Journal of Educational Measurement
发表日期
1987-09-01
发表年份
1987

关键词

Psychometric Methodologies and TestingIntelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive LearningAdvanced Statistical Modeling Techniques

摘要

It is observed that many sorts of difficulties may preclude the uneventful construction of tests by a computerized algorithm, such as those currently in favor in Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT). In this essay we discuss a number of these problems, as well as some possible avenues of solution. We conclude with the development of the “testlet,” a bundle of items that can be arranged either hierarchically or linearly, thus maintaining the efficiency of an adaptive test while keeping the quality control of test construction that is possible currently only with careful expert scrutiny. Performance on the separate testlets is aggregated to yield ability estimates.