Developing Multistage Tests Using D -Scoring Method.

The D -scoring method for scoring and equating tests with binary items proposed by Dimitrov offers some of the advantages of item response theory, such as item-level difficulty information and score computation that reflects the item difficulties, while retaining the merits of classical test theory...

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Publicado en:Educational & Psychological Measurement Vol. 79; no. 5; pp. 988 - 1009
Autores principales: Han, Kyung (Chris) T., Dimitrov, Dimiter M., Al-Mashary, Faisal
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Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. Oct2019
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          Han, Kyung (Chris) T.
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          Graduate Management Admission Council®, Reston, VA, USA
          National Center for Assessment, Saudi Arabia and George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
          National Center for Assessment, Education Evaluation Commission, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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        Psychological tests
        Scaling (Social sciences)
        Calibration
        Computer adaptive testing
        Test design
        Experimental design
        High performance computing
        Information retrieval
        Probability theory
        Regression analysis
        Sample size (Statistics)
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          Experimental design
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          Information retrieval
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        item calibration
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      ab: The D -scoring method for scoring and equating tests with binary items proposed by Dimitrov offers some of the advantages of item response theory, such as item-level difficulty information and score computation that reflects the item difficulties, while retaining the merits of classical test theory such as the simplicity of number correct score computation and relaxed requirements for model sample sizes. Because of its unique combination of those merits, the D -scoring method has seen quick adoption in the educational and psychological measurement field. Because item-level difficulty information is available with the D -scoring method and item difficulties are reflected in test scores, it conceptually makes sense to use the D -scoring method with adaptive test designs such as multistage testing (MST). In this study, we developed and compared several versions of the MST mechanism using the D -scoring approach and also proposed and implemented a new framework for conducting MST simulation under the D -scoring method. Our findings suggest that the score recovery performance under MST with D -scoring was promising, as it retained score comparability across different MST paths. We found that MST using the D -scoring method can achieve improvements in measurement precision and efficiency over linear-based tests that use D -scoring method.
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