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Wheadon, Christopher – Research Papers in Education, 2013
This paper describes how item response theory (IRT) methods of test-equating could be applied to the maintenance of public examination standards in England. IRT methods of test-equating have been sparingly applied to the main public examinations in England, namely the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE), the equivalent of a school…
Descriptors: Test Theory, Foreign Countries, Exit Examinations, Item Response Theory
Braun, Henry; And Others – 1986
From the fall of 1981 through June 1984, more than 850 disabled examinees took special administration of the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE). Grade point averages were obtained on 278 disabled students; 236 had enough complete data to be included in the study. Disabled students earned lower mean GRE scores than their nonhandicapped counterparts…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, College Entrance Examinations, Correlation, Grade Point Average
Vale, C. David; Gialluca, Kathleen A. – 1985
ASCAL is a microcomputer-based program for calibrating items according to the three-parameter logistic model of item response theory. It uses a modified multivariate Newton-Raphson procedure for estimating item parameters. This study evaluated this procedure using Monte Carlo Simulation Techniques. The current version of ASCAL was then compared to…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Bayesian Statistics, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Simulation

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