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Acer's 85 Years Of Research Spreads Worldwide, Geoff Masters
Acer's 85 Years Of Research Spreads Worldwide, Geoff Masters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
The Australian Council for Educational Research approaches its centenary with a strong track record for independent research and a growing international reach.
Towards A Unified Theory Of Assessment, Geoff Masters
Towards A Unified Theory Of Assessment, Geoff Masters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
Attempts to categorise educational assessments as either ‘formative’ or ‘summative’ no longer serve us well and the time has come to develop a more unified theory of assessment.
Year-Level Expectations Can Impede Learning, Expert Warns, Geoff Masters
Year-Level Expectations Can Impede Learning, Expert Warns, Geoff Masters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
Some of the ways in which school education is organised and delivered may be contributing to our highest and lowest achieving students making little annual progress in their learning.
A New Deal For End-Of-School Assessment, Geoff Masters, Gabrielle Matters
A New Deal For End-Of-School Assessment, Geoff Masters, Gabrielle Matters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
A review of the processes involved in senior assessment and tertiary entrance in Queensland recommends a redesign to make them more appropriate to the 21st century. Geoff Masters and Gabrielle Matters explain the thinking behind their recommendations.
Adaptive Testing For Psychological Assessment: How Many Items Are Enough To Run An Adaptive Testing Algorithm?, Michaela Wagner-Menghin, Geoff Masters
Adaptive Testing For Psychological Assessment: How Many Items Are Enough To Run An Adaptive Testing Algorithm?, Michaela Wagner-Menghin, Geoff Masters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
Although the principles of adaptive testing were established in the psychometric literature many years ago (e.g., Weiss, 1977), and practice of adaptive testing is established in educational assessment, it is not yet widespread in psychological assessment. One obstacle to adaptive psychological testing is a lack of clarity about the necessary number of items to run an adaptive algorithm. The study explores the relationship between item bank size, test length and measurement precision. Simulated adaptive test runs (allowing a maximum of 30 items per person) out of an item bank with 10 items per ability level (covering .5 logits, 150 items …