Chapter 8
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- An umbrella term for all that goes into the process of creating a test.
- The process of developing a test occurs in five stages:
- It is the process of setting rules for assigning numbers in measurement.
- He is credited for being the forefront of efforts to develop methodologically sound scaling methods.
- Entails judgments of a stimulus in comparison with every other stimulus on the scale
- Stimuli are placed into one or two more alternative categories that differ quantitatively with respect to some continuum.
- Grouping of words, statements, or symbols on which judgments of the strength of a particular trait, attitude, or emotion are indicated by the test taker.
- When final score is obtained by summing the ratings across all the items.
- Each item presents the test taker with five alternative responses usually on agree-disagree, or approve-disapprove continuum.
- It is when presented with two stimuli and asked to compare.
- Judging of a stimulus in comparison with every other stimulus on the scale.
- Test taker places stimuli into a category; those categories differ quantitatively on a spectrum.
- Items range from sequentially weaker to stronger expressions of attitude, belief, or feeling.
- Reservoir from which items will not be drawn for the final version of the test.
- Variables such as the form, plan, structure, arrangement and layout of individual test items.
- Type of format where test taker selects a response from a set of alternative responses.
- Type of format where test taker supplies or creates the correct answer.
- Relatively large and easily accessible collection of test questions.
- Interactive, computer administered test taking process wherein items presented to the test taker are based in part on test taker's performance on previous.
- The diminished utility of an assessment tool for distinguishing test takers at the low end of the ability, trait, or other attribute being measured.
- The diminished utility of an assessment tool for distinguishing test takers at the high end of the ability, trait, or other attribute being measured.
- Ability of computer to tailor the content and order of presentation of test items on the basis of responses to previous items.
- Test takers earn cumulative credit with regard to a particular construct.
- Test taker responses earn credit toward placement in a particular class or category with other test takers whose patter of responses is presumably similar in someway.
- Comparing a test taker's score on one within a test to another scale within that same test.
- Obtained by calculating the proportion of the total number of test takers who answered the item correctly "p".
- Indication of the internal consistency of a test.
- Statistic designed to provide an indication of the degree to which a test is measuring what it purports to measure.
- Measures how adequately a item separates or discriminates between high scores and low scorers.
- Other Considerations in Item Analysis
- Techniques of data generation and analysis that rely primarily on verbal rather than mathematical or statistical procedures.
- Various nonstatistical procedures designed to explore how individual test item work.
- Approach to cognitive assessment that entails respondents vocalizing thoughts as they occure.
- Revalidation of a test on a sample of test takers other than those on whom test performance was originally found to be a valid predictor of some criterion.
- Decrease in item validities that inevitably occurs after cross validation of finding.
- Test validation process conducted on two or more tests using the sample of test takers.
- When co-validation is used conjunction with the creation of norms or the revision of existing norms.
- Phenomenon wherein an items function differently in one group of test takers as compared to another group of test takers known to have the same level of the underlying trait.