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Download full textLee, Yi-Hsuan; Zhang, Jinming – ETS Research Report Series, 2010
This report examines the consequences of differential item functioning (DIF) using simulated data. Its impact on total score, item response theory (IRT) ability estimate, and test reliability was evaluated in various testing scenarios created by manipulating the following four factors: test length, percentage of DIF items per form, sample sizes of…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Item Response Theory, Test Items, Scores
Mislevy, Robert J.; Wu, Pao-Kuei – 1988
The basic equations of item response theory provide a foundation for inferring examinees' abilities and items' operating characteristics from observed responses. In practice, though, examinees will usually not have provided a response to every available item--for reasons that may or may not have been intended by the test administrator, and that…
Descriptors: Ability, Adaptive Testing, Equations (Mathematics), Estimation (Mathematics)
Nandakumar, Ratna; Yu, Feng – 1994
DIMTEST is a statistical test procedure for assessing essential unidimensionality of binary test item responses. The test statistic T used for testing the null hypothesis of essential unidimensionality is a nonparametric statistic. That is, there is no particular parametric distribution assumed for the underlying ability distribution or for the…
Descriptors: Ability, Content Validity, Correlation, Nonparametric Statistics
Bergstrom, Betty; And Others – 1994
Examinee response times from a computerized adaptive test taken by 204 examinees taking a certification examination were analyzed using a hierarchical linear model. Two equations were posed: a within-person model and a between-person model. Variance within persons was eight times greater than variance between persons. Several variables…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Adults, Certification, Computer Assisted Testing
Catts, Ralph – 1978
The reliability of multiple choice tests--containing different numbers of response options--was investigated for 260 students enrolled in technical college economics courses. Four test forms, constructed from previously used four-option items, were administered, consisting of (1) 60 two-option items--two distractors randomly discarded; (2) 40…
Descriptors: Answer Sheets, Difficulty Level, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Henning, Grant – 1991
Criticisms of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) have included speculation that the listening test places too much burden on short-term memory as compared with comprehension, that a knowledge of reading is required to respond successfully, and that many items appear to require mere recall and matching rather than higher-order…
Descriptors: Adults, Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Processes, Educational Assessment
