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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Zheng, Yi; Nozawa, Yuki; Gao, Xiaohong; Chang, Hua-Hua – ACT, Inc., 2012
Multistage adaptive tests (MSTs) have gained increasing popularity in recent years. MST is a balanced compromise between linear test forms (i.e., paper-and-pencil testing and computer-based testing) and traditional item-level computer-adaptive testing (CAT). It combines the advantages of both. On one hand, MST is adaptive (and therefore more…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Heuristics, Accuracy, Item Banks
Chen, Hanwei; Cui, Zhongmin; Zhu, Rongchun; Gao, Xiaohong – ACT, Inc., 2010
The most critical feature of a common-item nonequivalent groups equating design is that the average score difference between the new and old groups can be accurately decomposed into a group ability difference and a form difficulty difference. Two widely used observed-score linear equating methods, the Tucker and the Levine observed-score methods,…
Descriptors: Equated Scores, Groups, Ability Grouping, Difficulty Level