Elements of Adaptive Testing edited by Wim J. van der Linden, Cees A.W. Glas.

The arrival of the computer in educational and psychological testing has led to the current popularity of adaptive testing---a testing format in which the computer uses statistical information about the test items to automatically adapt their selection to a real-time update of the test taker’s abili...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: van der Linden, Wim J. (Editor), Glas, Cees A.W (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
Edition:1st ed. 2010.
Series:Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences,
Springer eBook Collection.
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Table of Contents:
  • ITEM SELECTION AND ABILITY ESTIMATION
  • Item Selection and Ability Estimation in Adaptive Testing
  • Constrained Adaptive Testing with Shadow Tests
  • Principles of Multidimensional Adaptive Testing
  • Multidimensional Adaptive Testing with Kullback#x2013;Leibler Information Item Selection
  • Sequencing an Adaptive Test Battery
  • APPLICATIONS IN LARGE-SCALE TESTING PROGRAMS
  • Adaptive Tests for Measuring Anxiety and Depression
  • MATHCAT: A Flexible Testing System in Mathematics Education for Adults
  • Implementing the Graduate Management Admission Test Computerized Adaptive Test
  • Designing and Implementing a Multistage Adaptive Test: The Uniform CPA Exam
  • A Japanese Adaptive Test of English as a Foreign Language: Developmental and Operational Aspects
  • ITEM POOL DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE
  • Innovative Items for Computerized Testing
  • Designing Item Pools for Adaptive Testing
  • Assembling an Inventory of Multistage Adaptive Testing Systems
  • ITEM CALIBRATION AND MODEL FIT
  • Item Parameter Estimation and Item Fit Analysis
  • Estimation of the Parameters in an Item-Cloning Model for Adaptive Testing
  • Detecting Person Misfit in Adaptive Testing
  • The Investigation of Differential Item Functioning in Adaptive Tests
  • MULTISTAGE AND MASTERY TESTING
  • Multistage Testing: Issues, Designs, and Research
  • Three-Category Adaptive Classification Testing
  • Testlet-Based Adaptive Mastery Testing
  • Adaptive Mastery Testing Using a Multidimensional IRT Model.