To evaluate the psychometric properties and validity of an expanded set of community enfranchisement items that are suitable for computer adaptive testing.
To improve measurement precision, the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality of Life Group is developing an item bank for computerized adaptive testing (CAT) of emotional functioning (EF).
In addition, these item banks allow for computer adaptive testing, which involves tailoring the measure to individual patients.
MDT-based approaches are a promising alternative to approaches based on item-response theory, and are well-suited for computerized adaptive testing in the health domain.
The formation of very large item banks for computer adaptive testing (CAT), may, in the future, allow the use of the Rasch model to develop tailored questionnaires.
Since the 1950s, new statistical models called Rasch or IRT (Item Response Theory) models have been developed which allow for Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT), a short and efficient test procedure that does not compromise the accuracy of the test results.
Our objective was to develop a novel classification method for developing brief assessment instruments that does not require pretesting on large numbers of research participants, and that would be suitable for computerized adaptive testing.
This is of particular concern when parameter estimates of items are going to be treated as known in other applications, for example, in adaptive testing, as part of a calibrated item pool, or for test construction purposes (Davey and Lee 2011; van Barneveld 2007).
The RPCM shows a good fit to the data and offers further advantages like a refined item analysis, Rasch scalability, and the possibility to employ more elaborate IRT-based techniques like, for example, computerized adaptive testing.
Thus, computer corpora and WordNet-like lexical databases provide a possibility for computer-driven, adaptive testing of L2 learners' lexical network knowledge, with consideration of word frequency, collocational canonicity, as well as semantic connectivity, which could be an interesting direction for WAF test development and research in the future.
