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Peer reviewedBarrett, Richard S. – Public Personnel Management, 1992
The Content Validation Form is presented as a means of proving that occupational tests provide a representative work sample or knowledge, skill, or ability necessary for a job. It is best used during test construction by a panel of subject matter experts. (SK)
Descriptors: Content Validity, Item Analysis, Multiple Choice Tests, Occupational Tests
Download full textSireci, Stephen G. – 1995
The purpose of this paper is to clarify the seemingly discrepant views of test theorists and test developers about terminology related to the evaluation of test content. The origin and evolution of the concept of content validity are traced, and the concept is reformulated in a way that emphasizes the notion that content domain definition,…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Content Validity, Definitions, Item Analysis
Yang, Wen-Ling – 1997
Using an anchor-item design of test equating, the effects of three equating methods (Tucker linear and two three-parameter item-response-theory-based (3PL-IRT) methods), and the content representativeness of anchor items on the accuracy of equating were examined; and an innovative way of evaluating equating accuracy appropriate for the particular…
Descriptors: Equated Scores, Item Response Theory, Raw Scores, Test Construction
Mathieu, Cindy K. – 1997
This paper presents six steps in test construction generally recommended by measurement textbook authors. The focus is primarily on paper-and-pencil achievement tests as used by class instructions, although the discussion touches on the construction of other types of assessment. The six steps are: (1) determine the test purpose; (2) determine the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Difficulty Level, Measurement Techniques, Selection
Budescu, David V.; And Others – 1994
Modified Parallel Analysis (MPA) is a heuristic method for assessing "approximate unidimensionality" of item pools. It compares the second eigenvalue of the observed correlation matrix with the corresponding eigenvalue extracted from a "parallel" matrix generated by a unidimensional and locally independent model. Revised…
Descriptors: Equations (Mathematics), Heuristics, Item Analysis, Item Banks
Georgia State Dept. of Education, Atlanta. – 1999
This document is a supplement to the Test Content Description for the Georgia High School Test in Science. The sample items are representative of items on the actual Georgia High School Tests. The strands (major areas) being tested are: (1) World Studies (18% to 20% of the test); (2) United States History since 1865 (18% to 20% of the test); (3)…
Descriptors: High School Students, High Schools, Social Studies, Standardized Tests
Washington Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Olympia. – 2000
This document lists the test and item specifications for the Washington Assessment of Student Learning for fourth grade reading. The test section of the document explains that the purpose of this test is to measure Washington fourth grade students' level of proficiency in the Essential Academic Learning Requirements in reading. The reading test…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Reading Comprehension
Washington Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Olympia. – 2000
This document outlines the test and item specifications for the Washington Assessment of Student Learning for tenth grade reading. The purpose of this test is to measure Washington tenth grade students' level of proficiency in the Essential Academic Learning Requirements in reading. The reading test described in the document contains literary,…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Grade 10, High Schools, Reading Comprehension
Milewski, Glenn B.; Patelis, Thanos – 2001
The 1999 Advanced Placement[R] (AP[R] Psychology Examination contains items drawn from 13 factors related to the study of psychology. This factor structure had not been explored previously. This study focuses on evaluating the fit of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) models to examination items. Since examination items were dichotomous and…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Factor Structure, Goodness of Fit, High School Students
Peer reviewedSireci, Stephen G.; Geisinger, Kurt F. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 1992
A new method for evaluating the content representation of a test is illustrated. Item similarity ratings were obtained from three content domain experts to assess whether ratings corresponded to item groupings specified in the test blueprint. Multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis provided substantial information about the test's content…
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, Content Analysis, Multidimensional Scaling, Multiple Choice Tests
Eigenberger, Marty – 1993
Items of Altemeyer's 1986 version of the "Right-Wing Authoritarianism Scale" (RWA Scale) were analyzed as philosophical propositions in an effort to establish each item's suggestive connotation and denotation. The guiding principle of the analysis was the way in which the statements reflected authoritarianism's defining characteristics…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Beliefs, Definitions, Item Analysis
Thomasson, Gary L. – 1997
Score comparability is important to those who take tests and those who use them. One important concept related to test score comparability is that of "equity," which is defined as existing when examinees are indifferent as to which of two alternate forms of a test they would prefer to take. By their nature, computerized adaptive tests…
Descriptors: Ability, Adaptive Testing, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing
Washington Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Olympia. – 2000
This document outlines the test and item specifications for the Washington Assessment of Student Learning for seventh grade reading. It notes the purpose of this test is to measure Washington seventh grade students' level of proficiency in the Essential Academic Learning Requirements in reading, and that the reading test contains literary,…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Grade 7, Junior High Schools, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedSchraw, Gregory – Journal of Experimental Education, 1997
The basis of students' confidence in their answers to test items was studied with 95 undergraduates. Results support the domain-general hypothesis that predicts that confidence judgments will be related to performance on a particular test and also to confidence judgments and performance on unrelated tests. (SLD)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Metacognition, Performance Factors, Scores
Robin, Frédéric; van der Linden, Wim J.; Eignor, Daniel R.; Steffen, Manfred; Stocking, Martha L. – ETS Research Report Series, 2005
The relatively new shadow test approach (STA) to computerized adaptive testing (CAT) proposed by Wim van der Linden is a potentially attractive alternative to the weighted deviation algorithm (WDA) implemented at ETS. However, it has not been evaluated under testing conditions representative of current ETS testing programs. Of interest was whether…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Computer Assisted Testing, Simulation, Evaluation Methods
