Dave Bartram & Ron Hambleton 
Computer-Based Testing and the Internet [PDF ebook] 
Issues and Advances

No topic is more central to innovation and current practice in
testing and assessment today than computers and the Internet.

This timely publication highlights four main themes that define
current issues, technical advances and applications of
computer-based testing:

* Advances in computer-based testing — new test designs, item
selection algorithms, exposure control issues and methods, and new
tests that capitalize on the power of computer technology.

* Operational issues — systems design, test security, and legal
and ethical matters.

* New and improved uses — for tests in employment and
credentialing.

* The future of computer-based testing — identifying potential
issues, developments, major advances and problems to overcome.

Written by internationally recognized contributors, each chapter
focuses on issues of control, quality, security and technology.
These issues provide the basic structure for the International Test
Commission’s new Guidelines on Computer-Based Testing and Testing
on the Internet. The contributions to this book have played a key
role in the development of these guidelines.

Computer-Based Testing and the Internet is a comprehensive guide
for all professionals, academics and practitioners working in the
fields of education, credentialing, personnel testing and
organizational assessment. It will also be of value to students
developing expertise in these areas.

Table of Content

About the Editors

List of Contributors.

Introduction: the International Test Commission and its Role in
Advancing Measurement Practices and International Guidelines (T.
Oakland).

1. Testing on the Internet: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities
in the Field of Occupational Assessment (D. Bartram).

2. Model-Based Innovations in Computer-Based Testing (W. van der
Linden).

3. New Tests and New Items: Opportunities and Issues (F. Drasgow
& K. Mattern).

4. Psychometric Models, Test Designs and Item Types for the next
Generation of Educational and Psychological Tests (R.
Hambleton).

5. Operational Issue sin Computer-Based Testing (R. Luecht).

6. Intenret Testing: The Examinee Perspective (M. Harris).

7. The Impact of Technology on Test Manufacture, Delivery and
Use and on the Test Taker (D. Bartram).

8. Optimizing Quality in the Use of Web-Based and Computer
-Based Testing for Personnel Selection (L. Hornke & M.
Kersting).

9. Computer-Based Testing for Professional Licensing and
Certification of Health Professionals (D. Melnick & B.
Clauser).

10. Issues that Simulations Face as Assessment Tolls (C.
Johnson).

11. Inexorable and Inevitable: the Continuing Story of
Technology and Assessment (R. Bennett).

12. Facing the Opportunities for the Future (K. Breithaupt, et
al.).

Index.

About the author

Dave Bartram is Past President of the International Test commissionand is heading ITC projects on international guidelines forstandards in test use and standards for computer-based testing andthe Internet. He is Chair of the British Psychological Society’s Steering Committee on Test Standards and Convenor of the European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations Standing Committee on Tests and Testing. He is President-Elect of the IAAP’s Division 2.

Professor Bartram is Research Director for SHL Group plc. Priorto his appointment with SHL in 1998, he was Dean of the Faculty of Science and the Environment, and Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Hull. He is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and a Fellow of the Ergonomics Society.In 2004 he received the BPS award for Distinguished Contributionsto Professional Psychology. His specialist area is computer-basedtesting and Internet assessment systems. Within SHL he is leadingthe development of their next generation of Internet-based deliverysystems and the development of a multi-dimensional generic Competency Framework.

He has published large numbers of popular, professional andacademic articles and book chapters, and has been the Senior Editorof the BPS Test Reviews. He has been an editor or co-author ofseveral works including the 1992, 1995 and 1997 BPS Reviews of Psychometric Tests; Organisational Effectiveness: the Role of Psychology (with Ivan Robertson and Militza Callinan, published in2002 by Wiley)and the BPS Open Learning Programme for Level A(Occupational) Test Use (with Pat Lindley, published by BPSBlackwell in 1994.

Ronald K. Hambleton holds the title of Distinguished University Professor and is Chairperson of the research and Evaluation Methods Program and Executive Director of the Center for Educational Assessment at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in the United States. He earned a B.A. in 1966 from the University of Waterloo in Canada with majors in mathematics and psychology, andan M.A. in 1967 and Ph.D. in 1969 from the University of Torontowith specialties in psychometric methods and statistics. Professor Hambleton teaches graduate-level courses in educational andpsychological testing, item response theory and applications, andclassical test theory models and methods, and offers seminarcourses on applied measurement topics. He is co-author of severaltextbooks including (with H. Swaminathan and H. Jane Rogers)Fundamentals of Item Response Theory (published by Sage in 1991)and Item response Theory: Principles and App0licaitons (publishedby Kluwer in 1985), and co-editor of several books including International Perspectives on Academic Assessment ( with Thomas Oakland, published by Kluwer in 1995), Handbook of Modern Itemresponse Theory ( with Wim van der Linden, published by Springer in1997) and Adaptation of Educational and Psychological Tests for Cross-Cultural Assessment ( with Peter Merenda and Charles Spielberger, Published by Earlbaum in 2005). His research interestsare in the areas of item response model applications to educationalachievement and credentialing exams, standard-setting, testadaptation methodology, score reporting and computer-base testing.he has received several honors and awards for his more than 35years of measurement research including honorary doctorates from Umea University in Sweden and the University of Oviedo in Spain, the 1994, National Council on Measurement in Education Career Award, the 2003Association of Test Publisher National Award for Contributions to Computer-Based Testing, and the 2005 E.F.Lindquist Award for Contributions to Assessment. Professor Hambleton is a frequent consultant to state department ofeducation, national government agencies and credentialingorganizations.