Computer-Based Testing and the Internet: Issues and Advances

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-470-86192-9
Verlag: WILEY

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 171 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 640 g

Computer Based Testing and the Internet highlights four main themes that define this field, namely: advances in computer-based testing, including test designs; operational issues, including security and legal issues; new uses for tests in employment and credentialing; and the future of computer based testing. Each contributor also addresses issues of control, quality, security, and technology within the subject matter of their particular chapters.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bartram, Dave

Hambleton, Ron

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie Kulturpsychologie, Ethnopsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Angewandte Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Verkehrspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Berufe, Ausbildung
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Geschichte der Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Beratungspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Editors.List of Contributors.Introduction: The ITC and Its Role in Advancing Measurement Practices and International Guidelines (Thomas Oakland).1 Testing on the Internet: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities in the field of Occupational Assessment (Dave Bartram).2 Model-Based Innovations in Computer-Based Testing (Wim J. van der Linden).3 New Tests and New Items: Opportunities and Issues (Fritz Drasgow and Krista Mattern).4 Psychometric Models, Test Designs, and Item Types for the next Generation of Educational and Psychological Tests (Ronald K. Hambleton).5 Operational Issues in Computer-Based Testing (Richard Luecht).6 Internet Testing: The Examinee Perspective (Michael Harris).7 The Impact of Technology on Test Manufacture, Delivery and Use, and on the Test Taker (Dave Bartram).8 Optimizing Quality in the Use of Web-Based and Computer-Based Testing for Personnel Selection (Lutz Hornke and Martin Kersting).9 Computer-Based Testing for Professional Licensing and Certification of Health Professionals (Donald E. Melnick and Brian E. Clauser).10 Issues that simulations face as assessment tools: A discussion of Chapters 8 and 9 (Charles Johnson).11 Inexorable and Inevitable: The Continuing Story of Technology and Assessment (Randy Bennett).12 Facing the Opportunities of the Future (Krista Breithaupt, Craig N. Mills and Gerald J. Melican).Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Dave Bartram is Past President of the International TestCommission and is heading ITC projects on international guidelinesfor standards in test use and standards for computer-based testingand the Internet. He is Chair of the British PsychologicalSociety's Steering Committee on Test Standards and Convenorof the European Federation of Psychologists' AssociationsStanding Committee on Tests and Testing. He is President-Elect ofthe IAAP's Division 2.
Professor Bartram is Research Director for SHL Group plc. Prior tohis appointment with SHL in 1998, he was Dean of the Faculty ofScience and the Environment, and Professor of Psychology in theDepartment of Psychology at the University of Hull. He is aChartered Occupational Psychologist, a Fellow of the BritishPsychological Society (BPS) and a Fellow of the Ergonomics Society.In 2004 he received the BPS award for Distinguished Contributionsto Professional Psychology. His specialist area is computer-basedtesting and Internet assessment systems. Within SHL he is leadingthe development of their next generation of Internet-based deliverysystems and the development of a multi-dimensional genericCompetency Framework.
He has published large numbers of popular, professional andacademic articles and book chapters, and has been the Senior Editorof the BPS Test Reviews. He has been an editor or co-author ofseveral works including the 1992, 1995 and 1997 BPS Reviews ofPsychometric Tests; Organisational Effectiveness: the Role ofPsychology (with Ivan Robertson and Militza Callinan, published in2002 by Wiley) and the BPS Open Learning Programme for Level A(Occupational) Test Use (with Pat Lindley, published by BPSBlackwell in 1994).
Ronald K. Hambleton holds the title of DistinguishedUniversity Professor and is Chairperson of the Research andEvaluation Methods Program and Executive Director of the Center forEducational Assessment at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst,in the United States. He earned a B.A. in 1966 from the Universityof Waterloo in Canada with majors in mathematics and psychology,and an M.A. in 1967 and Ph.D. in 1969 from the University ofToronto with specialties in psychometric methods and statistics.Professor Hambleton teaches graduate-level courses in educationaland psychological testing, item response theory and applications,and classical test theory models and methods, and offers seminarcourses on applied measurement topics. He is co-author of severaltextbooks including (with H. Swaminathan and H. Jane Rogers)Fundamentals of Item Response Theory (published by Sage in 1991)and Item Response Theory: Principles and Applications (published byKluwer in 1985), and co-editor of several books includingInternational Perspectives on Academic Assessment (with ThomasOakland, published by Kluwer in 1995), Handbook of Modern ItemResponse Theory (with Wim van der Linden, published by Springer in1997) and Adaptation of Educational and Psychological Tests forCross-Cultural Assessment (with Peter Merenda and CharlesSpielberger, published by Erlbaum in 2005). His research interestsare in the areas of item response model applications to educationalachievement and credentialing exams, standard-setting, testadaptation methodology, score reporting and computer-based testing.He has received several honors and awards for his more than 35years of measurement research including honorary doctorates fromUmea University in Sweden and the University of Oviedo in Spain,the 1994 National Council on Measurement in Education Career Award,the 2003 Association of Test Publisher National Award forContributions to Computer-Based Testing, and the 2005 E. F.Lindquist Award for Contributions to Assessment. ProfessorHambleton is a frequent consultant to state departments ofeducation, national government agencies and credentialingorganizations.