{"id":5917,"date":"2022-08-09T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humrro.org\/corpsite\/?p=5917"},"modified":"2025-05-02T12:58:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T16:58:36","slug":"is-your-computer-adaptive-test-ready-for-liftoff-flight-plan-can-help-you-explore-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humrro.org\/corpsite\/blog\/is-your-computer-adaptive-test-ready-for-liftoff-flight-plan-can-help-you-explore-the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Your Computer Adaptive Test Ready for Liftoff? \u2018Flight Plan\u2019 Can Help You Explore the Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Computer adaptive testing (CAT) has emerged as a dominant form of test administration to improve test security and obtain more precise estimates of examinee ability. Relative to static test forms where all items appear in a fixed order, CATs offer a dynamic assessment experience\u2014adjusting and aligning content to an examinee\u2019s ability level in real time until a pre-determined level of measurement precision is reached. Thus, CATs routinely result in a more secure, accurate, and efficient assessment process.<\/h3>\n

Moving from a fixed form to a CAT also frees test developers from having to build intact test forms. Instead, once developers build an item bank, the key question becomes, \u201cIs the item bank sufficient to support CAT in a real testing scenario?\u201d And if it is, \u201cHow do we configure an adaptive algorithm to make best use of the item bank to meet our test administration goals and objectives?\u201d<\/p>\n

To help answer those questions and support the potential benefits of using CAT with your testing program, HumRRO has developed an online tool<\/a> to contribute to the exploration of CAT for measurement professionals. Known as Flight Plan\u2014so named because it can help you explore CAT options on a real item bank before you launch a testing program\u2014this new tool allows non-programmers to begin simulating whether their assessment program can support a CAT in a user-friendly, engaging way.<\/p>\n

Complementing the consultation HumRRO routinely provides around assessment strategy, Flight Plan is a purely web-based application, making it accessible and easy to use yet also highly functional as it sits on a complex adaptive algorithm that pulls together some of the most recent advances in CAT science.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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