Bartram / Hambleton Computer-Based Testing and the Internet

Issues and Advances
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-470-86193-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, E-Book

No topic is more central to innovation and current practice intesting and assessment today than computers and the Internet.
This timely publication highlights four main themes that definecurrent issues, technical advances and applications ofcomputer-based testing:
* Advances in computer-based testing -- new test designs, itemselection algorithms, exposure control issues and methods, and newtests that capitalize on the power of computer technology.
* Operational issues -- systems design, test security, and legaland ethical matters.
* New and improved uses -- for tests in employment andcredentialing.
* The future of computer-based testing -- identifying potentialissues, developments, major advances and problems to overcome.
Written by internationally recognized contributors, each chapterfocuses on issues of control, quality, security and technology.These issues provide the basic structure for the International TestCommission's new Guidelines on Computer-Based Testing and Testingon the Internet. The contributions to this book have played a keyrole in the development of these guidelines.
Computer-Based Testing and the Internet is a comprehensive guidefor all professionals, academics and practitioners working in thefields of education, credentialing, personnel testing andorganizational assessment. It will also be of value to studentsdeveloping expertise in these areas.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bartram, Dave

Hambleton, Ron

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Editors
List of Contributors.
Introduction: the International Test Commission and its Role inAdvancing Measurement Practices and International Guidelines (T.Oakland).
1. Testing on the Internet: Issues, Challenges and Opportunitiesin the Field of Occupational Assessment (D. Bartram).
2. Model-Based Innovations in Computer-Based Testing (W. van derLinden).
3. New Tests and New Items: Opportunities and Issues (F. Drasgow& K. Mattern).
4. Psychometric Models, Test Designs and Item Types for the nextGeneration of Educational and Psychological Tests (R.Hambleton).
5. Operational Issue sin Computer-Based Testing (R. Luecht).
6. Intenret Testing: The Examinee Perspective (M. Harris).
7. The Impact of Technology on Test Manufacture, Delivery andUse and on the Test Taker (D. Bartram).
8. Optimizing Quality in the Use of Web-Based and Computer-Based Testing for Personnel Selection (L. Hornke & M.Kersting).
9. Computer-Based Testing for Professional Licensing andCertification of Health Professionals (D. Melnick & B.Clauser).
10. Issues that Simulations Face as Assessment Tolls (C.Johnson).
11. Inexorable and Inevitable: the Continuing Story ofTechnology and Assessment (R. Bennett).
12. Facing the Opportunities for the Future (K. Breithaupt, etal.).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Dave Bartram is Past President of the International Test commissionand is heading ITC projects on international guidelines forstandards in test use and standards for computer-based testing andthe Internet. He is Chair of the British Psychological Society'sSteering Committee on Test Standards and Convenor of the EuropeanFederation of Psychologists' Associations Standing Committee onTests and Testing. He is President-Elect of the IAAP's Division 2.
Professor Bartram is Research Director for SHL Group plc. Priorto his 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 Distinguished UniversityProfessor and is Chairperson of the research and Evaluation MethodsProgram and Executive Director of the Center for EducationalAssessment at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in theUnited States. He earned a B.A. in 1966 from the University ofWaterloo in Canada with majors in mathematics and psychology, andan M.A. in 1967 and Ph.D. in 1969 from the University of Torontowith specialties in psychometric methods and statistics. ProfessorHambleton teaches graduate-level courses in educational andpsychological testing, item response theory and applications, andclassical 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 App0licaitons (publishedby Kluwer 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 Earlbaum 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-base 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 CareerAward, the 2003Association 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 department ofeducation, national government agencies and credentialingorganizations.