Education and demonstration – Question or problem eliciting response – Grading of response form
Reexamination Certificate
2011-01-04
2011-01-04
Mosser, Kathleen (Department: 3715)
Education and demonstration
Question or problem eliciting response
Grading of response form
C434S362000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07865131
ABSTRACT:
The current invention is designed to improve the certainty of test-taker classifications in testing programs utilizing open-ended items. The current invention discloses methods to improve certainty in estimates of test-taker performance for all test-takers while using a minimum of scoring resources. The invention selectively allocates resources to scoring by ceasing to allocate scoring resources to test-takers whose performance has been determined with sufficient certainty, and by having an additional reader or readers score responses from test-takers whose scores are close to cutoff levels. The invention further increases precision of scores for test-takers near a cutoff by selectively allocating more reliable and accurate readers to score responses most likely to influence a test-taker's performance classification. Other scoring resources are also shown.
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Patz Richard J.
Poor David Deas Sinkler
Mosser Kathleen
Rothwell, Figg Ernst & Manbeck, PC
The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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