title: Knowledge and understanding of Asia: using a common item pool to obtain national estimates.
abstract: A series of tests were developed to assess the proficiency of Australian Year 5 and Year 8 students in Asian Studies. This paper presents results of analyses that involved calibrating items distributed over 14 overlapping subtests, developed to cater for state and territory curricula and two year-levels. This allowed for state and year-level preferences to be selected from a common pool of 105 items. The project used common item anchoring to map all students and items onto a single, underpinning scale that was identified and interpreted using concurrent equating procedures and a skills audit of items.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia. p.griffin@unimelb.edu.au
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Griffin
authors.forename: Kerry
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Woods
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D008297:Male; D011793:Queensland; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014904:Western Australia