By Duanli Yan, Alina A. von Davier, Charles Lewis

Devising assessments that evaluation a nation's academic status and enforce efficacious academic reforms calls for a cautious stability one of the contributions of know-how, psychometrics, attempt layout, and the training sciences. not like different kinds of adaptive checking out, multistage checking out (MST) is very appropriate for checking out academic success since it could be tailored to academic surveys and scholar testing. Read more...

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RMSE(ϑ) as a function of difficulty of a three-item routing module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weighted sum of variances as a function of a three-item routing module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Percentage taking easy module as a function of a three-item routing module. . . . . . . . . . . . . RMSE(ϑ) as a function of the length of the routing module. RMSE(ϑ) as a function of the length of the routing module. RMSE(ϑ) for various routing module lengths and number of follow-up modules—test length 20.

Observed total scores plotted as a function of predicted scores using multiple regression for all groups in design 1- design 6 for typical and narrowed module designs in the calibration sample. Note: x-axis represents the predicted score; y-axis represents the observed score. . . . . . . . . . RMSE for all six designs in application sample. . . . 318 319 321 Schematic of a two-stage, three-level MST design (MST13) with additional unscored sections (Educational Testing Service 2012b).

Typical IRT parameters of the PIAAC numeracy section . Final exposure rates of all stage 1 test booklets in numeracy session with core test cut score 2 . . . . . . . . Final exposure rates of all stage 2 test booklets in numeracy session with core test cut score 2 . . . . . . . . Hypothetical country exposure rates in numeracy session with core test cut score 2: Ability distribution . . . . . . Hypothetical country exposure rates in numeracy session with core test cut score 2: stage 1 .

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