Assessing the Utility of Item Response Models: Computerized Adaptive Testing

How has Item Response Theory helped solve problems in the development and use of computer-adaptive tests? Do we need to balance item content with computer-adaptive tests? Could we use IRT to evaluate unusual responses to computer-delivered tests?     

数字图书馆的研究内容和方向

在我国 ,数字图书馆的研究和建设 ,必须鼓励跨学科的合作和国际合作 ;国家的资助要保持数字图书馆项目 (研究类、应用类和内容建设类 )间的平衡 ;要从具体的应用环境出发 ,建设有特色的数字图书馆 ,不能盲目追求大、全、新 ;应重视元数据的研究。参考文献 1。表 4。     

提高学校田径接力项目成绩的初探

接力比赛是一项团体项目，由于竞争激烈．可观赏性很强。在各级田径运动会的比赛中起着举足轻重的作用。一个接力队成绩的好坏也反映出一个学校(团体)的教学与训练的水平。成绩的优劣除了取决于几名运动员的个人短跑成绩外，每个运动员之间的传接棒水平，传接棒成功率的高低，也直接影响着接力队的成绩。     

Henry Holt a-spinning in his grave: Literary agenting yesterday and today

The role of the literary agent and the reception granted agents by publishers have changed markedly over the course of the twentieth century. Henry Holt’s views of agents, written in the first decade of the century, help define the status and activities of agents at that time. These are compared with the role of agents today, using archival sources, the book trade literature, and interviews. Thomas L. Bonn, review editor of this journal, is a librarian, Library at State University College at Cortland. He is the author ofUnder Cover: An Illustrated History of American Mass Market Paperbacks andHeavy Traffic and High Culture: The New American Library as Literary Gatekeeper. He is working on a study of American literary agents.