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  • Educational Measurement
  • Statistical Modeling

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  • Item selection is crucial for developing reliable and valid tests.
  • Traditional methods like corrected item-total correlation are widely used.
  • Exploring alternative item-score reliability criteria can enhance test construction.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the effectiveness of different item-score reliability criteria for item selection.
  • To compare item-assessment methods (MS, λ6, CA) against corrected item-total correlation.
  • To determine optimal item selection procedures (bottom-up and top-down) based on population reliability.

Main Methods:

  • Investigated MS, λ6, and Cronbach's Alpha (CA) as item-assessment methods.
  • Used corrected item-total correlation as a benchmark for comparison.
  • Employed Kendall's τ and Kendall's W to assess ordering resemblance and concordance across 1,000 replicated samples.

Main Results:

  • Cronbach's Alpha (CA) and corrected item-total correlation most closely matched the ideal item ordering for both bottom-up and top-down procedures.
  • All investigated methods showed improved performance with larger sample sizes.
  • Greater variance in item discrimination parameters also enhanced method performance and ordering concordance.

Conclusions:

  • Item-score reliability, particularly Cronbach's Alpha, is a valuable criterion for item selection in test construction.
  • The effectiveness of item selection methods is influenced by sample size and item characteristics.
  • These findings support the use of CA and corrected item-total correlation for optimizing test development.