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ITEM BANKS: WHAT, WHY, HOW
Author(s) -
WRIGHT BENJAMIN D.,
BELL SUSAN R.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
journal of educational measurement
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.917
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1745-3984
pISSN - 0022-0655
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-3984.1984.tb01038.x
Subject(s) - carelessness , variety (cybernetics) , value (mathematics) , item bank , quality (philosophy) , psychology , computer science , accounting , psychometrics , business , item response theory , artificial intelligence , clinical psychology , machine learning , epistemology , philosophy , psychiatry
In this paper, we discuss curricular implications of item banking and its practical value to teachers and students, and list a variety of working banks with their sources. We also review the psychometric basis of item banking, outline a family of computer programs for accomplishing banking, and give the equations necessary to build a bank. We conclude with a discussion of item quality control and examples of items that misfit because of miskeying, guessing, or carelessness.