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Implementing Assessment Engineering in the Uniform Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Examination

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العنوان: Implementing Assessment Engineering in the Uniform Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Examination
اللغة: English
المؤلفون: Burke, Matthew, Devore, Richard, Stopek, Josh
المصدر: Journal of Applied Testing Technology. Apr 2013 14.
الإتاحة: Association of Test Publishers. 601 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, South Building Suite 900, Washington DC 20004. Tel: 866-240-7909; Fax: 717-755-8962; e-mail: wgh.atp@att.net; Web site: http://www.testpublishers.org
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 34
تاريخ النشر: 2013
نوع الوثيقة: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Descriptors: Licensing Examinations (Professions), Accounting, Engineering, Test Construction, Task Analysis, Thinking Skills, Taxonomy, Test Items, Test Validity, Content Validity, Evidence, Cognitive Processes
مستخلص: This paper describes efforts to bring principled assessment design to a large-scale, high-stakes licensure examination by employing the frameworks of Assessment Engineering (AE), the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy (RBT), and Cognitive Task Analysis (CTA). The Uniform CPA Examination is practice-oriented and focuses on the skills of accounting. In preparation for a Practice Analysis, the authors are revising skill definitions to support the development of construct maps. Construct maps are the means by which distinct levels of proficiency are represented along a continuum and linked to tasks used to provide evidence of proficiency. A modified CTA is employed to better understand the "moving parts" of existing complex performance exercises used in the examination. The RBT is used to provide a hierarchical structure to the cognitive skills underlying task performance. Construct maps provide the basis for a new type of test blueprint that incorporates psychometric concerns into the test development process. This research focuses on tackling a critical step in AE; writing skill statements to populate the construct map. (Contains 2 tables and 2 figures.)
Abstractor: As Provided
Number of References: 14
Entry Date: 2014
URL الوصول: http://www.testpublishers.org/journal-of-applied-testing-technology
رقم الأكسشن: EJ1013199
قاعدة البيانات: ERIC