Test Design (eBook)

Developments in Psychology and Psychometrics

Susan E. Embretson (Herausgeber)

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2013 | 1. Auflage
314 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-1-4832-6609-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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 from a psychological theory that includes implications of verbal comprehension theories in the role of intelligence and the effects of these implications on goals, design, scoring, and validation of tests. Part III discusses the latent trait models for test design that have numerous advantages in problems involving item banking, test equating, and computerized adaptive testing. One paper explains the use of the linear exponential model for psychometric models in speed test construction. The book discusses the traditional psychometric; the Hunt, Frost, and Lunnerbog theory; and the single-latency distribution model. Part IV examines test designs from the perspective of test developments in the future integrating technology, cognitive science, and psychometric theories. Psychologists, psychometricians, educators, and researchers in the field of human development studies will value this book.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Test Design: Developments in Psychology and Psychometrics 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 6
Contributors 10
Preface 12
Part I: Introduction to Test Design 14
Chapter 1. Introduction to the Problem of Test Design 16
INTRODUCTION 16
DESIDERATA FOR TEST DESIGN 16
CURRENT PRACTICES IN TEST DEVELOPMENT 18
CURRENT ISSUES IN TESTING AND TEST DESIGN 19
ORGANIZATION OF THE BOOK 20
REFERENCES 29
Part II: Design Variables from Psychological Theory 32
Chapter 2. The Representation and Processing of Information in Real-Time Verbal Comprehension 34
INTRODUCTION 34
ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO ANALYZING VERBAL COMPREHENSION 35
THEORY OF REPRESENTATION AND INFORMATION PROCESSING 40
IMPLICATIONS FOR TEST DESIGN AND ANALYSIS 49
TEST VALIDATION 53
CONCLUSION 53
REFERENCES 54
Chapter 3. Analyses of Spatial Aptitude and Expertise 58
INTRODUCTION 58
SPATIAL APTITUDE ANALYSIS 59
ANALYSIS OF A SPATIAL VISUALIZATION TASK 62
CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS 87
REFERENCES 89
Chapter 4. Theoretically Based Psychometric Measures of Inductive Reasoning 90
INTRODUCTION 90
DESCRIBING AND GENERATING LETTER SERIES 91
TWO THEORIES OF LETTER SERIES CONTINUATION 106
EXPERIMENTAL TESTS OF THEORIES OF LETTER SERIES CONTINUATION 114
FIVE CONCLUSIONS 136
TWO THEORETICALLY DERIVED PSYCHOMETRIC MEASURES OF INDUCTIVE REASONING 138
SUMMARY 146
REFERENCES 160
Chapter 5. Cognitive Analyses of Tests: Implications for Redesign 162
INTRODUCTION 162
BASIC EXAMPLES 163
RECENT ADVANCES 168
CONCLUSION 176
REFERENCES 177
Part Ill: Latent Trait Models for Test Design 180
Chapter 6. The Assessment of Learning Effects with Linear Logistic Test Models 182
INTRODUCTION 182
THE LINEAR LOGISTIC TEST MODEL 183
FOUR LOGISTIC MODELS OF LEARNING BETWEEN TESTS 194
LEARNING AND THE VALIDITY OF LOGISTIC TEST MODELS 202
REFERENCES 204
Chapter 7. Multicomponent Latent Trait Models for Test Design 208
INTRODUCTION 208
TEST DESIGN AND CONSTRUCT VALIDITY 209
COMPONENT LATENT TRAIT MODELS 213
CONCLUSION 229
REFERENCES 230
Chapter 8. Psychometric Models for Speed-Test Construction: The Linear Exponential Model 232
SPEED IN PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH 232
THE MODEL 238
APPENDIX I 252
APPENDIX II 255
REFERENCES 256
Chapter 9. A Latent-Trait Model for Items with Response Dependencies: Implications for Test Construction and Analysis 258
INTRODUCTION 258
THE RATING MECHANISM AND ASSOCIATED MODELS 260
AN ELABORATION OF THE DISPERSION LOCATION MODEL 264
TWO CONTEXTS FOR THE APPLICATION OF THE DLIM ( DLM OF ITEMS) 267
THE DLIM AND DEPENDENCE AMONG RESPONSES 270
THE ILLUSTRATIVE DATA SETS 275
DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS FOR TEST CONSTRUCTION 284
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 286
REFERENCES 286
Part IV: Test Design from the Test Development Perspective 290
Chapter 10. Speculations on the Future of Test Design 292
INTRODUCTION 292
TECHNOLOGY AND TEST DESIGN 292
COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND PSYCHOMETRICS 297
CONCLUDING COMMENTS 305
REFERENCES 305
Author Index 308
Subject Index 312

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.10.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Test in der Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie
• ISBN-10: 1-4832-6609-5 / 1483266095
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4832-6609-1 / 9781483266091