Improving the Quality of Innovative Item Types: Four Tasks for Design and Development

Autor/inn/en	Parshall, Cynthia G.; Harmes, J. Christine
Titel	Improving the Quality of Innovative Item Types: Four Tasks for Design and Development
Quelle	In: Journal of Applied Testing Technology, 10 (2009) 1, (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Test Items; Test Construction; Measurement; Educational Assessment; Use Studies; Guidelines; Psychometrics; Evaluation Methods; Innovation; Design; Models; Computer Assisted Testing; Educational Technology; Computer Software + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Test content; Testaufgabe; Testaufbau; Messverfahren; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Benutzerschulung; Richtlinien; Psychometry; Psychometrie; Analogiemodell; Unterrichtsmedien
Abstract	Many exam programs have begun to include innovative item types in their operational assessments. While innovative item types appear to have great promise for expanding measurement, there can also be genuine challenges to their successful implementation. In this paper we present a set of four activities that can be beneficially incorporated into the design and development of innovative item types. These tasks are: template design, item writing guidelines, item writer training, and usability studies. When these four tasks are fully incorporated in the test development process then the potential for improved measurement through innovative item types is much greater. (Contains 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10