ACHIEVEMENT TEST SCALING1

1984 8 . Achievement Test Items : Current issues

Effects of computer-based educational achievement test on test performance and test takers' motivation

There has been an increasing interest in recent years in developing and using computer-based tests in educational assessment. To replace pap er-based tests with computer-based ones, the standa rds for developing computerized-assessme nt (International Test Commission., 2004 ) requires equivalent test scores to be established for the new computer-based test and the conventional paper-based test....

The Effect of Schooling and Ability on Achievement Test Scores

This paper develops two methods for estimating the effect of schooling on achievement test scores that control for the endogeneity of schooling by postulating that both schooling and test scores are generated by a common unobserved latent ability. These methods are applied to data on schooling and test scores. Estimates from the two methods are in close agreement. We Þnd that the effects of sch...

Achievement test performance in children conceived by IVF.

BACKGROUND Long-term follow-up studies of children conceived by IVF are limited. We examine academic performance on standardized tests [Iowa Tests of Basic Skills/Educational Development (ITBS/ITED)] of children conceived by IVF. METHODS Parents of children 8-17 years of age at the onset of the study (March 2008) who were conceived by IVF at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and li...

An Achievement Test for Knowledge-Based Systems: QUEM

This paper describes QUEM, a method for assessing the skill level of a knowledge-based system based on the quality of the solutions it produces. QUEM is demonstrated by using it to assess the performance of a particular knowledge-based system, P. QUEM can be viewed as an achievement or job placement test given to know ledge-based systems to help system designers determine how the system should ...