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About this book
Persons involved in assessment are keenly aware of the increased attention given to alternative formats for test items in recent years. Yet, in many writers' zeal to be `curriculum-relevant' or `authentic' or `realistic', the items are often developed seemingly without conscious thought to the interpretations that may be garnered from them. This book argues that the format for such alternative items and exercises also requires rigor in their construction and even offers some solutions, as one chapter is devoted to these alternative formats.
This book addresses major issues in constructing test items by focusing on four ideas. First, it describes the characteristics and functions of test items. A second feature of this book is the presentation of editorial guidelines for writing test items in all of the commonly used item formats, including constructed-response formats and performance tests.
A third aspect of this book is the presentation of methods for determining the quality of test items. Finally, this book presents a compendium of important issues about test items, including procedures for ordering items in a test, ethical and legal concerns over using copyrighted test items, item scoring schemes, computer-generateditems and more.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Constructing Test Items
Book Subtitle: Multiple-Choice, Constructed-Response, Performance and Other Formats
Authors: Steven J. Osterlind
Series Title: Evaluation in Education and Human Services
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47535-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1998
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-8077-1Published: 31 December 1997
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-4099-9Published: 03 October 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-47535-1Published: 17 December 2005
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: IX, 339