Item banking : interactive testing and self-assessment

Assessment has long been recognized as a key feature in learning efficacy, especially through formative evaluation. Item banking, the storage and classification of test items, is an essential part of systematic assessment. This volume is based on a NATO Advanced Research Workshop held as part of the Special Programme on Advanced Educational Technology. The workshop brought together scholars from around the world to discuss and critically analyze the issues and problems associated with Subjective Probability Measurement (SPM) or the more generic research area called self-assessment. Recent advances in computer technology (expert systems, interactive video disks, and hypermedia) along with the developing sophistication of self-assessment scoring systems based on SPM made this conference particularly important and timely. The book is divided into three main parts: - The input: item banking and hypermedia - The process: subjective probabilities - The output: teaching and learning feedbacks. In summary, although SPM is a difficult theoretical concept for most educators to comprehend, the sophisticated nature of modern computer systems coupled with comprehensive formative and summative evaluation and self-assessment systems make SPM transparent to the user. Front Matter....Pages i-viii Editor’s Introduction....Pages 1-3 New Technology Implementation: Item Banking in Holland....Pages 5-11 An Item Banking Service: Pre-Project for a National System of Evaluation Tools....Pages 12-18 Analogical Evaluation Helps to Individualize Instruction....Pages 19-30 Hypermedia: Teaching Through Assessment....Pages 31-48 Graphics and Verbal Items in Item Banking: Are They Really Needed?....Pages 49-53 Adaptive Testing : Contribution of the SHIVA Model....Pages 54-65 Using Interactive Videodisc for the Assessment of Adult Learning Styles....Pages 66-75 In Pursuit of the Fallacy: Resurrecting the Penalty....Pages 76-98 Subjective Uncertainty and the Structure of the Set of all Possible Events....Pages 99-113 Validity, Reliability, and Acuity of Self-Assessment in Educational Testing....Pages 114-131 The Development and Evaluation of ELI, an Interactive Elicitation Technique for Subjective Probability Distributions....Pages 132-145 A Computer Environment to Develop Valid and Realistic Predictions and Self-Assesment of Knowledge with Personal Probabilities....Pages 146-166 The Dependability of Test Scores: Generalizability Theory and Hierarchical Linear Models....Pages 167-176 Human Self-Assessment: Theory and Application to Learning and Testing....Pages 177-189 Using Testing to Provide Feedback to Support Instruction: A Reexamination of the Role of Assessment in Educational Organizations....Pages 190-209 The TASTE Approach: General Implicit Solutions in Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs), Open Books Exams and Interactive Testing....Pages 210-232 Self-Confidence Assessment During Computer-Assisted Testing in Histology....Pages 233-241 Distance Interactive Testing....Pages 242-251 The Impact of Interactive Computer Based Instruction with Digitized Audio on Low Literate Adult Learners....Pages 252-259 Back Matter....Pages 260-268