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The NEPS-TBT work package, integrated into the Centre for Technology Based Assessment (TBA) at DIPF, addresses amongst others the following psychometric/diagnostic research topics:
Test administration effects (mode effects) and test equivalence focusing on competence assessment (see also Mode Effect Study)
(unstandardized) online testing and test setting effects (e.g. regarding motivation for working on test, e.g. Kroehne, Gnambs & Goldhammer, 2018)
Increase of measurement efficiency, automated test assembly as well as unidimensional / multi-dimensional adaptive testing (see also the projects CaTS, PortableCAT and the software MATE)
Innovative item and response formats for computer-based testing (complex items, see also project CavE-ICT; Engelhardt, Goldhammer, Naumann, & Frey, 2017; Engelhardt, Naumann, Goldhammer, Frey, Wenzel, Hartig, & Horz, accepted)
Assessment and psychometric modelling of response times in computer-based tests (e.g. Goldhammer & Kroehne, 2014) and questionnaires (e.g. Kroehne & Goldhammer, 2018)
Assessment, modelling and analysis of log and process data (see also projects Profan, ZIB priMA and MultiTex), and paradata (e.g. taxonomy in Kroehne & Goldhammer, 2018)
At the interdisciplinary Centre for Technology Based Assessment (TBA), research topics from the fields of computer science and information science are moreover focused:
Measurement of reaction times and analysis of time accuracy of assessment systems (e.g. by means of a response time keyboard developed by TBA)
Mobile assessment and online assessment on heterogeneous hardware
Long-term storage of computer-based test instruments (particularly regarding task generation with CBA ItemBuilder)
Test safety and test delivery on available hardware for computer-based testing in institutional contexts (school infrastructure)
workflow support for implementing computer-based tasks
Dissemination of log and process data