Automatic Generation of Rasch-Calibrated Items: Figural Matrices Test GEOM and Endless-Loops Test EC

Autor/in	Arendasy, Martin
Titel	Automatic Generation of Rasch-Calibrated Items: Figural Matrices Test GEOM and Endless-Loops Test EC
Quelle	In: International Journal of Testing, 5 (2005) 3, S.197-224 (28 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1530-5058
DOI	10.1207/s15327574ijt0503_2
Schlagwörter	Psychometrics; Spatial Ability; Quality Control; Item Response Theory; Cognitive Psychology; Test Construction + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Psychometry; Psychometrie; Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Qualitätskontrolle; Item-Response-Theorie; Kognitive Psychologie; Testaufbau
Abstract	The future of test construction for certain psychological ability domains that can be analyzed well in a structured manner may lie--at the very least for reasons of test security--in the field of automatic item generation. In this context, a question that has not been explicitly addressed is whether it is possible to embed an item response theory (IRT) based psychometric quality control procedure directly into the process of automatic item generation. Research in this area was conducted using 2 item generators (for the 2 domains of reasoning and spatial ability) that were developed and based on relevant models of cognitive psychology. During the course of the 4 studies reported here, those parts of the generators that check for possible violations of psychometric quality ("constraints") were improved. The main findings indicate that quality control procedures can be embedded in automatic item generators depending on (a) the degree to which the domain to be measured can be structured; (b) item-specific, content-based analyses; and (c) the degree to which the constraints can be implemented in software. Furthermore, beyond the global check of given model fit via IRT, the content-based analysis of items may be valuable in terms of finding such item properties that may lead to violations of psychometric quality. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10