This chapter reviews the contribution of new information-communication technologies to the
advancement of educational assessment. Improvements can be described in terms of …

One of the primary themes of the National Research Council's 2001 book Knowing What
Students Know was the importance of cognition as a component of assessment design and …

Since test items are the building blocks of any test, learning how to develop and validate test
items has always been critical to the teaching-learning process. As they grow in importance …

It is common practice in IRT to consider items as fixed and persons as random. Both,
continuous and categorical person parameters are most often random variables, whereas …

Unlike other forms of adaptive testing, multistage testing (MST) is highly suitable for testing
educational achievement because it can be adapted to educational surveys and student …

Advanced Methods in Automatic Item Generation is an up-to-date survey of the growing
research on automatic item generation (AIG) in today's technology-enhanced educational …

Writing high-quality test questions (items) is critical to building educational measures but has
traditionally also been a time-consuming process. One promising avenue for alleviating this …

This mini review summarizes the current state of knowledge about automatic item
generation in the context of educational assessment and discusses key points in the item …

Advances in computer technology and artificial intelligence create opportunities for
develo** adaptive language learning technologies which are sensitive to individual …

Utilizing technology for automated item generation is not a new idea. However, test items
used in commercial testing programs or in research are still predominantly written by …