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The test development process involves several steps: 1) test conceptualization where the purpose and need for the test is determined, 2) test construction where items are written and formatted, and 3) test tryout where the test is piloted and item analysis is conducted to evaluate questions. Feedback from tryouts informs the revision process to refine the test before finalization and use.

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Test Development

The test development process involves several steps: 1) test conceptualization where the purpose and need for the test is determined, 2) test construction where items are written and formatted, and 3) test tryout where the test is piloted and item analysis is conducted to evaluate questions. Feedback from tryouts informs the revision process to refine the test before finalization and use.

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Test Development

Test Development Process


Test Conceptualization Test Construction

Test Tryout
Item Analysis Revision

Test Conceptualization
An emerging social phenomenon or pattern of behavior might serve as the stimulus for the development of a new test The development of a new test maybe in response to a need to assess mastery in an emerging occupation or profession

Some Preliminary Questions


What is the test designed to measure? What is the objective of the test? Is there a need for this test? Who will use this test? Who will take this test? What content will the test cover? How will the test be administered? What is the ideal format of the test? How will meaning be attributed to scores on this test?

Item Development Issues


Norm- Referenced versus Criterion-Referenced Tests

Pilot Work
Preliminary research surrounding the creation of a prototype of the test Test developer attempts to determine how best to measure a targeted construct The process may entail the creation, revision and deletion of many test items, experimentations and related activities

Test Construction
Scaling : It may be defined as the process of setting rules for assigning numbers to measurement Test taker is presumed to have more or less of the characteristic measured by a test as a function of the test score

Summative Scale: Final test score obtained by summing the ratings across all the items Likert scale: Used to scale attitudes
Each item has five alternative responses Usually on an agree/disagree or approve/disapprove type of continuum

Method of Paired Comparisons: Test takers presented with pairs of stimuli which they are asked to compare Comparative Scaling: Entails judgments of a stimulus in comparison with every other stimulus on the scale Categorical Scaling: Stimuli are placed into one of two or more alternative categories that differ quantitatively with respect to some continuum

Writing Items
What range of contents should the items cover? Which of the many different types of item formats should be employed? How many items should be written?

Item pool: It is the reservoir or well from which items will be drawn or discarded for the final version of the test Item Format: Variables such as the form, plan, structure, arrangement and layout of individual test items are collectively referred to as item format. There are two types of item format:
Selected - response format Constructed - response format

Selected - Response Format


Multiple choice : It has three elements
A stem A correct alternative Distractors or foils

Matching : Two options are provided; premises on the left and responses on the right
Binary choice item : true-false, yes-no, agree-disagree, rightwrong, fact-opinion

Constructed - Response Format


Completion Item Short answer

Essay

Item Analysis
Tools used by test developers to analyze and select items are:
An index of items difficulty An index of items reliability An index of items validity An index of item discrimination

Qualitative Item Analysis


Qualitative methods are techniques of data generation and analysis that rely on verbal rather than mathematical or statistical procedures It compares individual test items to each other and to the test on the whole It involves exploration of the issues through verbal means such as interviews and group discussions conducted with test takers Think Aloud test administration: It sheds light on the test taker's thought processes during the administration of the test

Sensitivity Review
Study of test items typically conducted during the test development process in which items are examined for fairness to all prospective test takers and for the presence of offensive language, stereotypes, or situations.

Test Revision
Test Revision as a stage in New Test Development Test Revision in the Life Cycle of an Existing Test

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