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Evaluate Item Dependency In An Aptitude Reasoning Test, Luc T. Le
Evaluate Item Dependency In An Aptitude Reasoning Test, Luc T. Le
Dr Luc Tu Le
The Special Tertiary Admissions Test (STAT), developed by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), is as an alternate method of gaining entry into Australian university courses, for people who do not hold a recent Year 12 certificate in Australia. The test compromises 64 scored multiple-choice items, half of which are Verbal Reasoning questions and the other half, Quantitative Reasoning questions. Items were designed in testlets, where they could share the same stimulus (example, text paragraph). A natural question here was if the local independency assumption was violated in any sets of the items of the testlets. To investigate the …