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ERIC Number: EJ962946
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 24
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0895-7347
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Multistage Computerized Adaptive Testing with Uniform Item Exposure
Edwards, Michael C.; Flora, David B.; Thissen, David
Applied Measurement in Education, v25 n2 p118-141 2012
This article describes a computerized adaptive test (CAT) based on the uniform item exposure multi-form structure (uMFS). The uMFS is a specialization of the multi-form structure (MFS) idea described by Armstrong, Jones, Berliner, and Pashley (1998). In an MFS CAT, the examinee first responds to a small fixed block of items. The items comprising that block may be unrelated to each other, or they may comprise a testlet (Wainer and Kiely, 1987) After the first block of items has been administered, adaptation takes place in the choice of the next block to be administered and subsequent blocks. The uMFS design integrates item exposure control, as well as content balancing and other test development needs, into the design of the CAT, instead of placing those activities in the online implementation. We show that it is possible to implement item exposure control, in a very thorough way, in the psychometric specifications of the item blocks. (Contains 3 tables, 2 footnotes, and 5 figures.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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