An innovative parallel test sheet composition approach to meet multiple assessment criteria for national tests

A Novel Discrete Fruit Fly Optimization Algorithm for Intelligent Parallel Test sheets Generation

“…Usually, parallel test sheets are generated according to similar test specifications, which should not only be paralleled in content but also should be paralleled in structure. With the efficiency and effectiveness of computer-based test, sheet generation has been confirmed by many early studies [1], and parallel test sheet generation by computer automatically has become an important and interesting research issue of computer-aided testing (CAT).…”

“…In vision food searching process, the smell concentration of each fruit fly is evaluated by equation (1). Then, the best fruit fly with the minimum smell concentration in the population is found out, and the fruit fly group is replaced with the best fruit fly.…”

“…The PTSG problem is a NP-hard multiple constrained combinatorial optimization problem [1,2,3]. The goal of the problem is to select a subset of test items from test item bank to construct a series of parallel test sheets, which can meet multiple parallel test sheets assessment requirements (such as number of parallel test sheets, difficulty degree and etc.)…”

Information-based methods for evaluating the semantics of automatically generated test items

“…In which case, the examinee(s) may require a different version of test form, due to assessment needs or due to exceptional circumstances, that must assess the identical knowledge level across multiple test administrations. This is almost impossible to accomplish if the test forms are created manually and thus innovative methods, such as parallel test form tabu [11] and particle swarm optimization [12] were proposed to combine the test items using large item banks. However, examination agencies which adopt computer-assisted testing systems are faced with the daunting tasking of creating thousands of new and expensive items for developing the large item banks, that must meets multiple assessment and pedagogical objectives.…”

Slide Test Maker An Educational Software Tool for Test Composition

“…Also, tests are often built from scratch, without taking any advantage from the digital material produced during the previous teaching phase. Most of the research carried out so far has taken into account the fully automatic generation of questions from an input text [19,12,17] and the generation of tests through the selection of items from an existing question repository [20,16]. Nevertheless, the systems for automatic question generation are still far from giving satisfactory results.…”