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Location-Matching Adaptive Testing for Polytomous Technology-Enhanced Items.

Hyeon-Ah Kang¹, Gregory Arbet¹, Joe Betts²

¹University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA.

Applied Psychological Measurement

|February 8, 2024

Summary

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This study introduces adaptive testing strategies for polytomous items, improving item pool usage and sampling diversity. Leveraging examinee speed also reduces testing times and variation, enhancing administrative outcomes with minimal measurement cost.

Keywords:

computerized adaptive testing polytomous scoring response time technology-enhanced items variable-length computer-adaptive classification testing

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Area of Science:

Educational Measurement
Psychometrics
Computerized Adaptive Testing

Background:

Traditional polytomous item selection methods face challenges with item pool usage.
Technology-enhanced items require novel adaptive testing strategies.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and evaluate adaptive item selection methods for polytomously scored innovative items.
To address the item pool usage problem in adaptive testing.
To explore leveraging examinee test-taking speed for efficient test administration.

Main Methods:

Introduction of location indices for polytomous items.
Development of location-matched item selection strategies.
Incorporation of item time intensities into selection algorithms.
Monte Carlo simulations to evaluate proposed methods.

Main Results:

Location-matched item selection significantly improved item pool usage and sampling diversity.
Matching items' time intensities regulated testing times across examinees.
Reduced average testing times and minimized variation in testing duration.
Both methods showed significant administrative gains with marginal measurement cost.

Conclusions:

Adaptive strategies using location matching and speed leveraging offer substantial administrative benefits for polytomous innovative items.
These methods enhance item pool utilization and testing efficiency.
The effectiveness of these procedures can vary based on specific test designs.