Constructing Test Items (Evaluation in Education and Human Services) - Hardcover

Osterlind, Steven J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0792390121 ISBN 13: 9780792390121

Publisher: Springer, 1989

Synopsis

This book addresses major issues included in constructing test items by focusing on four ideas. First, it describes 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 for test of 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 for using copyrighted test items, item scoring schemes, computer-generated items and more.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792390121
• ISBN 13: 9780792390121
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368