Calibration of an item bank for the assessment of Basque language knowledge

Computers and Education

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1044-1055

  López Cuadrado, Javier ^a   Pérez, Tomás A ^a   Vadillo, José Á ^a   Gutiérrez, Julián ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

3PL model; Anchoring design; Basque language assessment; Computerized adaptive testing; Item bank calibration

Indexed keywords

3PL MODEL; COMPUTERIZED ADAPTIVE TESTING; ITEM BANK; ITEM BANK CALIBRATION; LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT;

CALIBRATION; OUTSOURCING;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 77955549285     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2010.04.015     Document Type: Article

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