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WillPitt Posted 14 years ago
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The test(TOEFL) is not computer-adaptive. Each test taker receives items that cover the full range of ability.

What does computer-adaptive mean?

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e. presenting more difficult questions to test-takers who are answering more questions correctly, and presenting easier questions to test-takers who are answering more questions incorrectly, so as to perhaps keep the "subjective difficulty" of the test roughly equal across all test-takers.

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  • presenting more difficult questions to test-takers who are answering more questions correctly, and presenting easier questions to test-takers who are answering more questions incorrectly, so as to perhaps keep the "subjective difficulty" of the test roughly equal across all test-takers.
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Computer adaptive tests would, in my best guess, be tests that adapt to the test-taker by "calibrating themselves" - i.e. presenting more difficult questions to test-takers who are answering more questions correctly, and presenting easier questions to test-takers who are answering more questions incorrectly, so as to perhaps keep the "subjective difficulty" of the test roughly equal across

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