CAT development that takes contents balance and psychological aspects of test takers into the consideration

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370736
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Niigata Seiryou University
• Principal Investigator: Kimura Tetsuo 新潟青陵大学, 福祉心理学部, 教授 (90249095)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): SHOJIMA KOJIRO 大学入試センター, 研究開発部, 準教授 (50360706)
• Research Collaborator: NAGAOKA KEIZO 早稲田大学, 人間科学学術院, 教授 (90127382)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: CAT / LMS / コンテンツバランス / 目標正答確率 / 教育心理学的側面

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Although the target probability of computer adaptive test (CAT) should be close to 50% from the view point of measurement theory, it should be higher when psychological aspects of test takers are took into the consideration. This study developed M-UCAT, a module which manipulate target probability of CAT on open-source learning management system (LMS) and opened its sources to public. Additionally, it released data coordination between LMS and Concerto, an open-source platform which enables CAT implementation outside of LMS, and a program on R environment which enables data analysis based on latent rank theory on Concerto.

Free Research Field

英語教育