Linear Models for Optimal Test Design

• Main Author: Linden, Wim J. van der (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2005.
• Series: Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Subjects: Statistics.; Assessment.; Psychometrics.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation.

This book begins with a reflection on the history of test design--the core activity of all educational and psychological testing. It then presents a standard language for modeling test design problems as instances of multi-objective constrained optimization. The main portion of the book discusses te...

Table of Contents:

• Brief History of Test Theory and Design
• Formulating Test Specifications
• Modeling Test-Assembly Problems
• Solving Test-Assembly Problems
• Models for Assembling Single Tests
• Models for Assembling Multiple Tests
• Models for Assembling Tests with Item Sets
• Models for Assembling Tests Measuring Multiple Abilities
• Models for Adaptive Test Assembly
• Designing Item Pools for Programs with Fixed Tests
• Designing Item Pools for Programs with Adaptive Tests
• Epilogue.