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Prestwood, J. Stephen; And Others – 1985
In order to take advantage of advances in the field of mental measurement, the Armed Forces and the Department of Defense have supported the development of a computerized adaptive version of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) for use in military personnel selection and classification. This report describes the development and…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Armed Forces, Computer Assisted Testing, Data Collection
Sympson, J. B.; Hartmann, Loralee – 1982
In connection with the development of item pools for the Navy's experimental Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) system, items in five different content areas (General Science, Paragraph Composition, Word Knowledge, Math Knowledge, and Arithmetic Reasoning) have been calibrated using item response theory (IRT) methodology. Operational Armed…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Adults, Computer Assisted Testing, Estimation (Mathematics)
Download full textKrass, Iosif A.; Thomasson, Gary L. – 1999
New items are being calibrated for the next generation of the computerized adaptive (CAT) version of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) (Forms 5 and 6). The requirements that the items be "good" three-parameter logistic (3-PL) model items and typically "like" items in the previous CAT-ASVAB tests have…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Algorithms, Computer Assisted Testing, Nonparametric Statistics
