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Direct linkKim, Weon H. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of the present study is to apply the item response theory (IRT) and testlet response theory (TRT) models to a reading comprehension test. This study applied the TRT models and the traditional IRT model to a seventh-grade reading comprehension test (n = 8,815) with eight testlets. These three models were compared to determine the best…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Test Items, Correlation, Reading Tests
Perkins, Kyle – 1987
In this paper four classes of procedures for measuring the instructional sensitivity of reading comprehension test items are reviewed. True experimental designs are not recommended because some of the most important reading comprehension variables do not lend themselves to experimental manipulation. "Ex post facto" factorial designs are…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Correlation, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Download full textRock, Donald A.; And Others – 1995
This report documents the development and validation of the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88) cognitive test battery. The cognitive test battery assesses growth between grades 8 and 12 in the content areas of reading comprehension, mathematics, science, and history/citizenship/geography. The battery was part of the NELS:88…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Bayesian Statistics, Citizenship Education
