The aim of the study was to examine common items in mixed format (e.g., multiple-choices and essay items) contain parameter drifts test equating processes performed with item non-equivalent groups design. In this study, which carried out using Monte Carlo simulation a fully crossed design, factors length (30 50), sample size (1000 3000), ratio 40%), drift (IPD) (20 30%), location tests (at begi...

This study described an attempt to develop a networked two-tier test system. A two-tier test is a two-level multiple-choice question that diagnoses students’ alternative conceptions in science. Three networked, two-tier test items were presented in this study. Students in Taiwan (555 14 year olds and 599 16 year olds) were asked to answer these items online. An analysis of students’ answers sug...

An adaptive testing method is presented that controls the speededness of the test using updated predictions of the response times of the test taker on the candidate items in the pool. Two different types of updates were investigated: (1) posterior predictions given the actual response times on the items already administered and (2) posterior predictions that use the responses on these items as ...

Three experiments examined whether quizzing promotes learning and retention of material from a social studies course with sixth grade students from a suburban middle school. The material used in the experiments was the course material students were to learn and some of the dependent measures were the actual tests on which students received grades. In within-subject designs, students received th...

The Thurstonian item response theory (IRT) model allows estimating the latent trait scores of respondents directly through their responses in forced-choice questionnaires. It solves a part of problems brought by the traditional scoring methods of this kind of questionnaires. However, the forced-choice designs may still have their own limitations: The model may encounter underidentification and ...

Two recent studies reported that yes/no recognition can be more impaired by hippocampal lesions than forced-choice recognition when the targets and foils are highly similar. This finding has been taken in support of two fundamental proposals: (1) yes/no recognition tests depend more on recollection than do forced-choice tests; and (2) the hippocampus selectively supports the recollection proces...