Anchor test is one type of psychological assessment tool to measure an individual's knowledge or cognitive ability by testing the same areas in different ways. In psychometrics, to develop assessment tools that reliable for test certain skill and ability are what most Psychometricists  interested in. Anchor test not intend to test subject's ability to take tests, interpret questions, or understand a concept that is unrelated to the test questions. Instead, it eliminate the incongruency between what the test is designed to assess and what it actually assesses. Subjects will test on the same knowledge and skills in multi ways in an anchor test. Compare with traditional tests in both education and psychology, anchor test intend to find out what an individual  able to do rather than what an individual  unable to do. A study examined that higher anchor test to total test correlation leads to better equating them implies that an anchor test with itens of medium difficulty may lead to better equating.
Anchor test is one type of psychological assessment tool to measure an individual's knowledge or cognitive ability by testing the same areas in different ways. In psychometrics, to develop assessment tools that are reliable for testing certain skills and abilities are what most Psychometricists are interested in. Anchor tests are not intended to test the subject's ability to take tests, interpret questions, or understand a concept that is unrelated to the test questions. Instead, it eliminates the incongruency between what the test is designed to assess and what it actually assesses. Subjects will be tested on the same knowledge and skills in multiple ways in an anchor test. Compared with traditional tests in both education and psychology, anchor tests are intended to find out what an individual is able to do rather than what an individual is unable to do. A study examined that higher anchor test to total test correlation leads to better equating then implies that an anchor test with items of medium difficulty may lead to better equating.
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