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Test design : developments in psychology and psychometrics /

Test Design: Developments in Psychology and Psychometrics is a collection of papers that deals with the diverse developments contributing to the psychometrics of test design. Part I is a review of test design including practices being used in test development. Part II deals with design variables fro...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Embretson, Susan E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Orlando : Academic Press, 1985.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover; Test Design: Developments in Psychology and Psychometrics; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Preface; Part I: Introduction to Test Design; Chapter 1. Introduction to the Problem of Test Design; INTRODUCTION; DESIDERATA FOR TEST DESIGN; CURRENT PRACTICES IN TEST DEVELOPMENT; CURRENT ISSUES IN TESTING AND TEST DESIGN; ORGANIZATION OF THE BOOK; REFERENCES; Part II: Design Variables from Psychological Theory; Chapter 2. The Representation and Processing of Information in Real-Time Verbal Comprehension; INTRODUCTION
  • ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO ANALYZING VERBAL COMPREHENSIONTHEORY OF REPRESENTATION AND INFORMATION PROCESSING; IMPLICATIONS FOR TEST DESIGN AND ANALYSIS; TEST VALIDATION; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 3. Analyses of Spatial Aptitude and Expertise; INTRODUCTION; SPATIAL APTITUDE ANALYSIS; ANALYSIS OF A SPATIAL VISUALIZATION TASK; CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS; REFERENCES; Chapter 4. Theoretically Based Psychometric Measures of Inductive Reasoning; INTRODUCTION; DESCRIBING AND GENERATING LETTER SERIES; TWO THEORIES OF LETTER SERIES CONTINUATION
  • EXPERIMENTAL TESTS OF THEORIES OF LETTER SERIES CONTINUATIONFIVE CONCLUSIONS; TWO THEORETICALLY DERIVED PSYCHOMETRIC MEASURES OF INDUCTIVE REASONING; SUMMARY; REFERENCES; Chapter 5. Cognitive Analyses of Tests: Implications for Redesign; INTRODUCTION; BASIC EXAMPLES; RECENT ADVANCES; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Part Ill: Latent Trait Models for Test Design; Chapter 6. The Assessment of Learning Effects with Linear Logistic Test Models; INTRODUCTION; THE LINEAR LOGISTIC TEST MODEL; FOUR LOGISTIC MODELS OF LEARNING BETWEEN TESTS; LEARNING AND THE VALIDITY OF LOGISTIC TEST MODELS; REFERENCES
  • Chapter 7. Multicomponent Latent Trait Models for Test DesignINTRODUCTION; TEST DESIGN AND CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; COMPONENT LATENT TRAIT MODELS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 8. Psychometric Models for Speed-Test Construction: The Linear Exponential Model; SPEED IN PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH; THE MODEL; APPENDIX I; APPENDIX II; REFERENCES; Chapter 9. A Latent-Trait Model for Items with Response Dependencies: Implications for Test Construction and Analysis; INTRODUCTION; THE RATING MECHANISM AND ASSOCIATED MODELS; AN ELABORATION OF THE DISPERSION LOCATION MODEL
  • TWO CONTEXTS FOR THE APPLICATION OF THE DLIM (DLM OF ITEMS)THE DLIM AND DEPENDENCE AMONG RESPONSES; THE ILLUSTRATIVE DATA SETS; DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS FOR TEST CONSTRUCTION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Part IV: Test Design from the Test Development Perspective; Chapter 10. Speculations on the Future of Test Design; INTRODUCTION; TECHNOLOGY AND TEST DESIGN; COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND PSYCHOMETRICS; CONCLUDING COMMENTS; REFERENCES; Author Index; Subject Index