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Pan, Yiqin; Livne, Oren; Wollack, James A.; Sinharay, Sandip – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2023
In computerized adaptive testing, overexposure of items in the bank is a serious problem and might result in item compromise. We develop an item selection algorithm that utilizes the entire bank well and reduces the overexposure of items. The algorithm is based on collaborative filtering and selects an item in two stages. In the first stage, a set…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Adaptive Testing, Test Items, Algorithms
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Sinharay, Sandip; Haberman, Shelby; Boughton, Keith – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2015
Feinberg and Wainer (2014) provided a simple equation to approximate/predict a subscore's value. The purpose of this note is to point out that their equation is often inaccurate in that it does not always predict a subscore's value correctly. Therefore, the utility of their simple equation is not clear.
Descriptors: Equations (Mathematics), Scores, Prediction, Accuracy