Linear Models for Optimal Test Design

Wim J. van der Linden - Collection Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences

432 pages, parution le 30/09/2004

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Résumé

This book begins with a reflection on the history of test design - the core activity of all educational and psychological testing. It then presents a standard language for modeling test design problems as instances of multi-objective constrained optimization. The main portion of the book discusses test design models for a large variety of problems from the daily practice of testing, and illustrates their use with the help of numerous empirical examples. The presentation includes models for the assembly of tests to an absolute or relative target for their information functions, classical test assembly, test equating problems, item matching, test splitting, simultaneous assembly of multiple tests, tests with item sets, multidimensional tests, and adaptive test assembly. Two separate chapters are devoted to the questions of how to design item banks for optimal support of programs with fixed and adaptive tests. Linear Models for Optimal Test Design, which does not require any specific mathematical background, has been written to be a helpful resource on the desk of any test specialist.

Written for: Researchers, graduate students

Sommaire

Brief history of test theory and design
Formulating test specifications
Modeling test-assembly problems
Solving test-assembly problems
Models for assembling single tests
Models for assembling multiple tests
Models for assembling tests with item sets
Models for assembling tests measuring multiple abilities
Models for adaptive test assembly
Designing item pools for programs with fixed tests
Designing item pools for programs with adaptive tests
Epilogue
A.1 Basic concepts in linear programming
A.2 Example of a test-assembly problem in OPL Studio

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Springer
Auteur(s)	Wim J. van der Linden
Collection	Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences
Parution	30/09/2004
Nb. de pages	432
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	735g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780387202723
ISBN13	978-0-387-20272-3