The nasty distracters. On the utility of a notional distracter analysis of items of matrices-test for the highly giftedAbstract. The ”Bochumer Matrizentest-advanced” (BOMAT; Hossiep, Turck & Hasella, 1999) and the ”Wiener Matrizentest” (WMT; Formann & ...
Summary: Item parameters for several hundreds of items were estimated based on empirical data from several thousands of subjects. The logistic one-parameter (1PL) and two-parameter (2PL) model estimates were evaluated. However, model fit showed that only ...
We investigated the effects of test anxiety on test performance using computerized adaptive testing (CAT) versus conventional fixed item testing (FIT). We hypothesized that tests containing mainly items with medium probabilities of being solved would have ...