Shorter, more reliable and valid tests by means of a genetic algorithm

  • Authors:

  • Alejandro Sierra;Vicente Ponsoda

  • Affiliations:

  • Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain;Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

A genetic algorithm is used to search for subtests of a multiple choice test with maximum score reliability and correlation with the full length test. Our case study shows that substantial increases in reliability can be achieved without giving up validity.