Testlet Response Theory and Its Applications

by Howard Wainer, Xiaohui Wang, Eric T. Bradlow

Book Overview

The measurement models employed to score tests have been evolving over the past century from those that focus on the entire test (true score theory) to models that focus on individual test items (item response theory) to models that use small groups of items (testlets) as the fungible unit from which tests are constructed and scored (testlet response theory, or TRT). In this book, the inventors of TRT trace the history of this evolution and explain...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052153514X
• ISBN13: 9780521681261
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"