TitleAn Authoring Environment for Adaptive Testing
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2005
AuthorsGuzmán, E, Conejo, R, García-Hervás, E
JournalEducational Technology & Society
Volume8
Issue3
Pagination66-76
Publication Languageeng
KeywordsAdaptability, Adaptive Testing, Authoring environment, Item Response Theory
Abstract

SIETTE is a web-based adaptive testing system. It implements Computerized Adaptive Tests. These tests are tailor-made, theory-based tests, where questions shown to students, finalization of the test, and student knowledge estimation is accomplished adaptively. To construct these tests, SIETTE has an authoring environment comprising a suite of tools that helps teachers create questions and tests properly, and analyze students’ performance after taking a test. In this paper, we present this authoring environment in the
framework of adaptive testing. As will be shown, this set of visual tools, that contain some adaptable eatures, can be useful for teachers lacking skills in this kind of testing. Additionally, other systems that implement adaptive testing will be studied.