Publication details
Estimates of item parameters in computer adaptive testing
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Paper in proceedings |
| Conference | Mendel |
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| Field | Informatics |
| Keywords | Benchmarking; Computer adaptive placement test; IRT; Parameter estimate |
| Description | This paper focuses on the problems connected with estimating parameters in a computer adaptive online language test developed at Masaryk University and used as a prerequisite for hundreds of students every semester before their enrolment in seminars of English for Special Purposes or Academic English. A segment estimate of parameters of the item response function is suggested as a solution of the so-called guessing problem. The results are compared with the usual approach, namely applying a three-parameter model. |