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100	1		_aLinden, Wim J. van der. _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aLinear Models for Optimal Test Design _h[electronic resource] / _cby Wim J. van der Linden.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bSpringer New York, _c2005.
300			_aXXIV, 408 p. 44 illus. _bonline resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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490	1		_aStatistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences
505	0		_aBrief History of Test Theory and Design -- Formulating Test Specifications -- Modeling Test-Assembly Problems -- Solving Test-Assembly Problems -- Models for Assembling Single Tests -- Models for Assembling Multiple Tests -- Models for Assembling Tests with Item Sets -- Models for Assembling Tests Measuring Multiple Abilities -- Models for Adaptive Test Assembly -- Designing Item Pools for Programs with Fixed Tests -- Designing Item Pools for Programs with Adaptive Tests -- Epilogue.
520			_aThis book begins with a reflection on the history of test design--the core activity of all educational and psychological testing. It then presents a standard language for modeling test design problems as instances of multi-objective constrained optimization. The main portion of the book discusses test design models for a large variety of problems from the daily practice of testing, and illustrates their use with the help of numerous empirical examples. The presentation includes models for the assembly of tests to an absolute or relative target for their information functions, classical test assembly, test equating problems, item matching, test splitting, simultaneous assembly of multiple tests, tests with item sets, multidimensional tests, and adaptive test assembly. Two separate chapters are devoted to the questions of how to design item banks for optimal support of programs with fixed and adaptive tests. Linear Models for Optimal Test Design, which does not require any specific mathematical background, has been written to be a helpful resource on the desk of any test specialist. Wim J. van der Linden is Professor of Measurement and Data Analysis, University of Twente, The Netherlands. His specialization is psychometric theory and methods, and he has been an active researcher of item response theory throughout his career. His current research is on test design, adaptive testing, test equating, and response-time modeling. Professor van der Linden is a past president of the Psychometric Society and a recipient of the NCME lifetime achievement award for his work on educational measurement.
650		0	_aStatistics.
650		0	_aAssessment.
650		0	_aPsychometrics.
650	1	4	_aStatistics.
650	2	4	_aStatistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.
650	2	4	_aAssessment, Testing and Evaluation.
650	2	4	_aPsychometrics.
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830		0	_aStatistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-387-29054-0
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