Research Catalog

Title

Computerized adaptive testing : a primer / by Howard Wainer with Neil J. Dorans [and others].

Author

Wainer, Howard.

Publication

Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000.

Supplementary Content

Publisher description

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Details

Additional Authors

Dorans, Neil J.

Description

xxiii, 335 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"This primer presents an introduction to all of the key ingredients in understanding computerized adaptive testing - technology, test development, statistics, and mental test theory. Based on years of research, this book educates the novice and serves as a compendium of state-of-the-art information for professionals interested in computerized testing in the areas of education, psychology, and other related social sciences. A hypothetical test, taken as a prelude to employment, is used as a common example throughout to highlight the book's most important features and problems."--Jacket.

Subjects

• Computer adaptive testing
• Tests adaptés par ordinateur

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Foreword to the First Edition / C. Victor Bunderson -- Foreword to the Second Edition / Drew H. Gitomer -- Preface to the First Edition / Howard Wainer -- Preface to the Second Edition / Howard Wainer -- 1. Introduction and History / Howard Wainer -- 2. System Design and Operation / Bert F. Green -- 3. Item Pools / Ronald Flaugher -- 4. Item Response Theory, Item Calibration, and Proficiency Estimation / Howard Wainer and Robert J. Mislevy -- 5. Testing Algorithms / David Thissen and Robert J. Mislevy -- 6. Scaling and Equating / Neil J. Dorans -- 7. Reliability and Measurement Precision / David Thissen -- 8. Validity / Lynne Steinberg, David Thissen and Howard Wainer.

ISBN

• 0805835113
• 9780805835113

LCCN

99087976

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library