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A METHOD OF ITEM‐ANALYSIS AND ITEM‐SELECTION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF CRITERION‐REFERENCED TESTS
Author(s) -
SEDDON G. M.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1987.tb00863.x
Subject(s) - statistics , selection (genetic algorithm) , test (biology) , psychology , statistical analysis , mathematics , computer science , artificial intelligence , paleontology , biology
S ummary . The optimum composition of criterion‐referenced tests in terms of the statistical parameters of the items is determined theoretically. A practical procedure for pre‐testing and selecting items to achieve this optimum composition is discussed. The paper then describes an empirical investigation to determine the usefulness of this procedure. The results showed that a test constructed by this procedure was more effective than 93 out of 100 tests constructed by selecting items at random from a domain.