Item Branching Refers to

question 170

Multiple Choice

Item branching refers to

• A) administering certain test items on a test depending on the testtakers' responses to previous test items.
• B) the creation of alternate and parallel forms of tests based on a group of testtakers' responses to the original test.
• C) statistical efforts to ensure that items translated into foreign languages are of the same difficulty.
• D) re-using items in an original test that were originally developed for use in a parallel test.

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Definitions:

Equilibrium

A state in which opposing forces or influences are balanced, often referring to chemical reactions reaching a state where the rates of the forward and reverse reactions are equal.

Products

The substances that result from a chemical reaction.

Reactants

Materials that exist at the beginning of a chemical reaction and are used up to produce end products.

Equilibrium Expression

A mathematical expression that relates the concentrations of the reactants and products at equilibrium in a reversible chemical reaction.