Serial Averaging in the Construction and Validation of Performance Tests [microform] / Marshall B. Jones
- Bib ID:
- 5538475
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Jones, Marshall B
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED339703
Broken link? let us search Trove , the Wayback Machine , or Google for you.
- Description:
-
- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1991
- 71 p.
- Summary:
-
The microcomputer has increased interest in performance testing, which samples what a person can do rather than what he or she knows. Conventional psychometric theory is based on knowledge tests, but in performance testing the unit of analysis is a trial, and it is unreasonable to assume that mean performance and interim correlations are independent of order of administration. For example, performance typically improves with practice. Both reliability and temporal stability frequently encounter optima as a performance test is lengthened. Scoring all trials administered may not yield the best predictive validity; rather, scoring a subset of trials frequently yields higher predictive validities. Subset analysis serves the same ends in performance-test theory as does item analysis in conventional psychometrics. Serial averaging and its applications (reliability and stability optima, optimal scoring for predictive validity, and subset analysis) are explained and illustrated. Results from the Project-A computer-administered tests, served as the database. Ten performance tests were used with two samples of college undergraduates (102 in each) and samples of Army enlisted people ranging from 8,892 to 9,269. Twenty-three references are included, and 12 tables and 11 graphs provide illustrative data. (SLD)
- Notes:
-
- Sponsoring Agency: Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA.
- Contract Number: ONR-N00014-90-J-1994.
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
-
- Computer Assisted Testing
- Higher Education
- Military Personnel
- Performance Based Assessment
- Performance Tests
- Predictive Validity
- Psychometrics
- Scoring
- Test Construction
- Test Reliability
- Test Validity
- Testing Problems
- Undergraduate Students
- Serial Averaging
- Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery Subset Analysis
- Other authors/contributors:
- Pennsylvania State Univ., Hershey. Dept. of Behavioral Science
- Available From:
- ERIC
- Copyright:
-
In Copyright
You may copy under some circumstances, for example you may copy a portion for research or study. Order a copy through Copies Direct to the extent allowed under fair dealing. Contact us for further information about copying.
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1991
Copyright status may not be correct if data in the record is incomplete or inaccurate. Other access conditions may also apply. For more information please see: Copyright in library collections.
Request this item
Request this item to view in the Library’s reading room.
Feedback
Similar items
- Essential Dimensions of Performance Tests. Professional Paper 1-77 [microform] / William C. Osborn
- "test-wiseness" on personality scales [microform] / Lawrence J. Stricker
- Procedures and Issues in the Measurement of Attitudes. TM Report No. 30 [microform] / Lawrence J. Severy
- Authenticity in Foreign Language Testing [microform] / Peter Doye
- Measurement Problems and Issues Related to Applied Performance Testing [microform] / James R. Sanders