Fundamental Testing Assumptions Revisited: Examination Length and Number of Item Options

When
06 Apr 2100
Location
Virtual - at your desktop

Registration

Members – $60.00
Others – $80.00

Maximizing professional credentialing examinations involves balancing several factors, including assessing the optimal examination length and determining an adequate number of options. This session will be broken down into two parts. The first part will review methods to determine the optimal number of items required by highlighting support for reducing the number of items. Data from a certification exam will be used to illustrate these findings. The second part will include a review of the literature on the advantages and disadvantages of reducing the number of item options and will present empirical findings suggesting that 3-option items may be sufficient and advantageous.

Presenter: Karine Georges joined Assessment Strategies Inc. (ASI), Canada’s Testing Company in 2004. Karine is the project lead on approximately 20 licensure or certification examinations, including the Canadian Nurses Association Nursing Specialty Certification Program, Travel Industry Council of Ontario and the Canadian Institute of Travel. She also works collaboratively on numerous other projects at ASI. Prior to coming to ASI, she worked for several years as a consultant in personnel selection and vocational assessments, human resource research, training, workshop facilitation, and employment counselling.

Karine obtained a B.A in Psychology from the University of Ottawa, and a Masters of Science, Industrial/Organizational Psychology at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. She also completed Ph.D. level courses at Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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