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The Effect of Test and Examinee Characteristics on the Occurrence of Aberrant Response Patterns in a Computerized Adaptive Test

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Rizavi, Saba; Hariharan, Swaminathan – Online Submission, 2001

The advantages that computer adaptive testing offers over linear tests have been well documented. The Computer Adaptive Test (CAT) design is more efficient than the Linear test design as fewer items are needed to estimate an examinee's proficiency to a desired level of precision. In the ideal situation, a CAT will result in examinees answering…

Descriptors: Guessing (Tests), Test Construction, Test Length, Computer Assisted Testing