ERIC Number: ED264260
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1985-Apr
Pages: 384
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Item Response Theory and Computerized Adaptive Testing Conference Proceedings (Wayzata, Minnesota, July 27-30, 1982).
Weiss, David J., Ed.
This report contains the Proceedings of the 1982 Item Response Theory and Computerized Adaptive Testing Conference. The papers and their discussions are organized into eight sessions: (1) "Developments in Latent Trait Theory," with papers by Fumiko Samejima and Michael V. Levine; (2) "Parameter Estimation," with papers by Frederic M. Lord and Marilyn S. Wingersky, David Thissen and Howard Wainer, and Charles Lewis; (3) "Multidimensional Item-Response Theory," with papers by Roderick P. McDonald, and Mark D. Reckase and Robert L. McKinley; (4) "Estimating Parameters with the E-M Algorithm," with papers by Robert K. Tsutakawa, and Robert J. Mislevy and R. Darrell Bock; (5) "Unidimensionality and Robustness," with papers by William Stout, Fritz Drasgow and Charles K. Parsons and Douglas H. Jones; (6) "Adaptive and Sequential Testing," with papers by David J. Weiss and Debra Suhadolnik and R. A. Weitzman; (7) "Latent Trait Models for Special Applications," with papers by Susan Embretson (Whitely) and Kikumi K. Tatsuoka; (8) "Applications of Computerized Adaptive Testing," with papers by James R. McBride and J. B. Sympson, J. B. Sympson and Loralee Hartmann, Wolfgang Wildgrube, and C. David Vale. (PN)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adaptive Testing, Branching, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Oriented Programs, Individual Testing, Item Analysis, Latent Trait Theory, Mathematical Models, Psychometrics, Sequential Approach, Statistical Analysis, Statistical Studies, Test Construction, Test Items, Test Theory
Publication Type: Collected Works - Proceedings
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Researchers
Language: English
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA. Personnel and Training Research Programs Office.
Authoring Institution: Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. Dept. of Psychology.
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A
