Mickie Rops Consulting

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.