Test theory for a new generation of tests [electronic resource] / edited by Norman Frederiksen, Robert J. Mislevy, Isaac I. Bejar.

The editors of this volume suggest that there are missing elements in the conceptualization upon which standard test theory is based. Those elements are models for just how people know what they know and do what they can do, and the ways in which they increase these capacities. Different models are...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Frederiksen, Norman, Mislevy, Robert J., Bejar, Isaac I.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hillsdale, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1993.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Cognitive psychology, new test design, and new test theory : an introduction / Richard E. Snow and David F. Lohman
  • 2. Foundations of a new test theory / Robert J. Mislevy
  • 3. Cognitive diagnosis : from statistically based assessment toward theory-based assessment / David F. Lohman and Martin J. Ippel
  • Comments on chapters 1-3 / Nancy S. Cole
  • 4. Repealing rules that no longer apply to psychological measurement / David Thissen
  • 5. Toward intelligent assessment : an integration of constructed-response testing, artificial intelligence, and model-based measurement / Randy Elliot Bennett
  • 6. Psychometric models for learning and cognitive processes / Susan Embretson
  • Comments on chapters 4-6 / Bert F. Green
  • 7. Assessing schema knowledge / Sandra P. Marshall
  • 8. Learning, teaching, and testing for complex conceptual understanding / Paul J. Feltovich, Rand J. Spiro, and Richard L. Coulson
  • 9. New views of student learning : implications for educational measurement / Geofferey N. Masters and Robert J. Mislevy
  • 10. Addressing process variables in test analysis / Drew H. Gitomer and Don Rock
  • Comments on chapters 7-10
  • 11. Application of a HYBRID model to a test of cognitive skill representation / Kentaro Yamamoto and Drew H. Gitomer
  • 12. Test theory and the behavioral scaling of test performance / John B. Carroll
  • 13. A generative approach to psychological and educational measurement / Isaac I. Bejar
  • 14. Representations of ability structures : implications for testing / Edward H. Haertel and David E. Wiley.