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Understanding and applying the basic principles of item development will greatly enhance the quality of your results. Find out more about the steps you can take to create defensible assessments in this blog post and check out the White Paper for more information.
This final post concludes Psychometrician Austin Fossey's series on item development in large-scale assessment. Content: Cover key processes in developing items, drafting items, reviewing items, editing items, and conducting an item analysis.
The goal: to fine-tune a set of items so that test developers have an item pool from which they can build forms for scored assessment while being confident about the quality, reliability, and validity of the items.
The goal: to fine-tune a set of items so that test developers have an item pool from which they can build forms for scored assessment while being confident about the quality, reliability, and validity of the items.
The final step in item development is the psychometric review, which is designed to flag any items that may need to be removed before you build your assessment forms for production.
In this blog post, Psychometrician Austin Fossey digs into difficulty, discrimination, and bias to figure out what is wrong with items that return poor statistics.
In this blog post, Psychometrician Austin Fossey digs into difficulty, discrimination, and bias to figure out what is wrong with items that return poor statistics.
As part of his Item Development series, Psychometrician Austin Fossey discusses tips and tricks to identifying sources of bias before the assessment is ever delivered in order to create a strong and defensible assessment. You can read part 1 of his post and comment with your own experiences, tips and tricks.
Once your items have passed through an initial round of edits, it is time for a content review committee to examine them.
In the blog post, Psychometrician Austin Fossey maps out some best practice tips for organizing a content review committee along with 6 questions for your committee to answer.
In the blog post, Psychometrician Austin Fossey maps out some best practice tips for organizing a content review committee along with 6 questions for your committee to answer.
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