A Strategy for Optimizing Item-Pool Management

Autor/inn/en	Ariel, Adelaide; van der Linden, Wim J.; Veldkamp, Bernard P.
Titel	A Strategy for Optimizing Item-Pool Management
Quelle	In: Journal of Educational Measurement, 43 (2006) 2, S.85-96 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0655
DOI	10.1111/j.1745-3984.2006.00006.x
Schlagwörter	Item Banks; Simulation; Interaction; Test Construction; Test Items; Law Schools; College Entrance Examinations; Law School Admission Test + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Simulation program; Simulationsprogramm; Interaktion; Testaufbau; Test content; Testaufgabe; Aufnahmeprüfung; Law school; Assessment; Admission criteria; Admission procedures; Rechtswissenschaft; Fachbereich; Eignungsprüfung; Eignungstest; Hochschulzulassung
Abstract	Item-pool management requires a balancing act between the input of new items into the pool and the output of tests assembled from it. A strategy for optimizing item-pool management is presented that is based on the idea of a periodic update of an optimal blueprint for the item pool to tune item production to test assembly. A simulation study with scenarios involving different levels of quality of the initial item pool, item writing, and management for a previous item pool from the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) showed that good item-pool management had about the same main effects on the item-writing costs and the number of feasible tests as good item writing, but the two factors showed strong interaction effects. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10