Automated Test Form Generation
Critique of the Journal Article "Automated Test Form Generation" by Wim J. van der Linden and Qi Diao
Van der Linden, J.M. & Diao, Q. (2013). Integrating test-form formatting into automated test assembly. Applied Psychological Measurement, 37(5) 361 -- 374
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The ordering of items in test forms and the selection of test items from a database can be extremely tedious and laborious when done manually. It would be extremely advantageous to be able to do both simultaneously using automated test form generation (ATFG). But the ATFG process can be unwieldy and cumbersome given the number of variables the creator must tackle. For example, "for an item bank of size 2,000, test length of 50 items, and upper limit of the number of pages in the test form equal to 15, the number of variables in the model is equal to 1,500,000" (Van der Linden & Diao 2013: 361). According to the article, "Integrating test-form formatting into automate test assembly" from Applied Psychological Measurement, "one of the goals of this research is to find out if test-production problems of realistic sizes can be solved" and make the simultaneous...
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