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CONSTRUCTING TESTS AND MANAGING TEST FORM FILES

Executing the tasks necessary to construct a test and accessing information about a particular test form is made easy with SMT-Bank. All of the functions associated with analyzing, creating, editing, formatting, and changing test forms are accessed through the Test Development Menu.

Using the Create/Edit A Form File feature, the form lists the item bank numbers in accordance to each item’s position on an exam. This feature also displays the item’s corresponding specification area and key. After the creation of a form file, a user can edit or modify it through this feature.

The new test can be printed in hard copy using the Print Form File function.

• The Form File Test Fit feature produces a report specifying precisely how well the new test conforms with the test specifications, identifying the content areas that have too many or too few items.
  
• The Review a Test function enables the user to view each item on a particular test form through a Window into each item’s information screen (Item Screen).
  
• The Examination Mean function provides statistical information about the new test form’s overall predicted difficulty level, by furnishing a mean p-value for the item set. This allows the user to understand the degree to which two forms are parallel in difficulty.
  
• The Test Production feature provides camera-ready copy of the new test form in Microsoft Word for Windows®.
• The Item Grid Report feature furnishes the user with statistical item information, indexed by content area, to assess the statistical balance of the test form
• The Check a Key attribute provides information about how the response options (i.e. A, B, C, D, and/or E) are distributed across the test form.
• The AutoForm feature enables the user to assemble the test form automatically according to the test specifications.
• The Test Characteristic Curve (TCC) function enables the user to view the TCC associated with the test form for testing programs using IRT (Item Response Theory) statistical parameters.
• The Common Item function allows the user to enter two different form numbers and request a list of the items that are in common to the two test forms.
• Finally, the Scramble feature instructs the system to randomly rearrange the items on the test form with the touch of one button, thus creating a second “version” of the test.

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