Open AccessCOMBINING MULTIPLE‐CHOICE AND CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE TEST SCORES: TOWARD A MARXIST THEORY OF TEST CONSTRUCTION
Author(s) -
Wainer Howard,
Thissen David
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
ets research report series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.235
H-Index - 5
ISSN - 2330-8516
DOI - 10.1002/j.2333-8504.1992.tb01454.x
Subject(s) - test (biology) , computer science , post hoc , item response theory , econometrics , machine learning , statistics , psychology , artificial intelligence , mathematics , cognitive psychology , psychometrics , medicine , paleontology , dentistry , biology
Future assessment instruments will probably be composed of a combination of different types of questions. Even though different kinds of questions require different scoring procedures there may be a need, for some purposes, to have those different scores combined as a composite. In this account we describe how mixtures of such scores might be efficaciously combined. Or, if no post hoc adjustment is desired, we provide two characterizations of measurement effectiveness to aid in making unadjusted score combinations efficient.