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Isbell, Daniel R.; Kremmel, Benjamin – Language Testing, 2020
Administration of high-stakes language proficiency tests has been disrupted in many parts of the world as a result of the 2019 novel coronavirus pandemic. Institutions that rely on test scores have been forced to adapt, and in many cases this means using scores from a different test, or a new online version of an existing test, that can be taken…
Descriptors: Language Tests, High Stakes Tests, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning
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Chen, Shu-Ying; Ankenman, Robert D. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2004
The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of four item selection rules--(1) Fisher information (F), (2) Fisher information with a posterior distribution (FP), (3) Kullback-Leibler information with a posterior distribution (KP), and (4) completely randomized item selection (RN)--with respect to the precision of trait estimation and the…
Descriptors: Test Length, Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Test Selection