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Download full textColwell, Nicole Makas – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2013
This paper highlights the current findings and issues regarding the role of computer-adaptive testing in test anxiety. The computer-adaptive test (CAT) proposed by one of the Common Core consortia brings these issues to the forefront. Research has long indicated that test anxiety impairs student performance. More recent research indicates that…
Descriptors: Test Anxiety, Computer Assisted Testing, Evaluation Methods, Standardized Tests
Rizavi, Saba; Way, Walter D.; Lu, Ying; Pitoniak, Mary; Steffen, Manfred – Online Submission, 2004
The purpose of this study was to use realistically simulated data to evaluate various CAT designs for use with the verbal reasoning measure of the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT). Factors such as item pool depth, content constraints, and item formats often cause repeated adaptive administrations of an item at ability levels that are not…
Descriptors: Test Items, Test Bias, Item Banks, College Admission
