Intro to Computerized Adaptive Testing
If your certifying agency is considering computer adaptive testing, you might want to look into Assessment Systems Corporation's workshop on June 1 in Minneapolis. The following topics will be covered:
- Rationale and basic assumptions of IRT
- Major IRT models and their parameters
- Estimating the latent trait, Θ, and its standard error
- Estimating item parameters
- Item and test/bank information
- Linking items to create an item bank for CAT
- Basic elements of CAT
- Types of CATs: CATs for equiprecise measurement, classification, measuring change
- What to consider before implementing CAT
- Implementing CAT
- Operational issues for some CATs: item exposure, enemy items, content balancing
Learn more here.