Test Scoring and Analysis Using SAS

Product Description

Develop your own multiple-choice tests, score students, produce student rosters (in print form or Excel), and explore item response theory (IRT).

Aimed at nonstatisticians working in education or training, Test Scoring and Analysis Using SAS describes item analysis and test reliability in easy-to-understand terms, and teaches you SAS programming to score tests, perform item analysis, and estimate reliability. Maximizing flexibility, the scoring and analysis programs enable you to analyze tests with multiple versions, define alternate correct responses for selected items, and repeat the scoring with selected items deleted.

You will be guided step-by-step on how to design multiple-choice items, use analysis to improve your tests, and even detect cheating on students’ submitted multiple-choice tests. Other subjects addressed include reading in data from a variety of sources (text files and Excel workbooks, for example), detecting errors in the input data, and producing class rosters in printed form or Excel workbooks. Also included is a chapter on IRT―widely used in education to calibrate and evaluate items in tests in education such as the SAT and GRE―with instructions for running the new SAS procedure PROC IRT.

This book is part of the SAS Press program.

About the Author

Ron Cody, EdD, a retired professor from the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School now works as a private consultant and a national instructor for SAS Institute Inc. A SAS user since 1977, Ron's extensive knowledge and innovative style have made him a popular presenter at local, regional, and national SAS conferences. He has authored or co-authored numerous books, such as Learning SAS by Example: A Programmer's Guide; SAS Statistics by Example, Applied Statistics and the SAS Programming Language, Fifth Edition; The SAS Workbook; The SAS Workbook Solutions; Cody's Data Cleaning Techniques Using SAS, Second Edition; Longitudinal Data and SAS: A Programmer's Guide; SAS Functions by Example, Second Edition, and Cody's Collection of Popular Programming Tasks and How to Tackle Them, as well as countless articles in medical and scientific journals.

Jeffrey Smith,is professor and Associate Dean (Research) in the College of Education at the University of Otago in New Zealand. For 29 years he was on the faculty of Rutgers University, serving the Department of Educational Psychology as professor and chair. From 1988 to 2005 he also served as Head of the Office of Research and Evaluation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He has written or edited eight books on educational assessment and statistics, the psychology of aesthetics, and educational psychology. He has published more than 70 research articles and reviews in the field of education, also founding and co-editing a journal, Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Smith received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.