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Adaptive screening test evaluation

Adaptive screening test evaluation is a psychometric and epidemiological framework for designing and assessing screening instruments whose item selection or stopping rules adjust dynamically to each respondent's response pattern. Rooted in item response theory (IRT) and computerized adaptive testing (CAT), the method uses real-time ability or severity estimates to present only the most informative items, then evaluates the resulting screening decisions against a clinical reference standard using standard diagnostic accuracy metrics.

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Adaptive Screening Test Evaluation
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / epidemiology
  • Wainer, H., Dorans, N. J., Flaugher, R., Green, B. F., & Mislevy, R. J. (2000). Computerized Adaptive Testing: A Primer (2nd ed.). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. · ISBN 978-0805835113
  • Streiner, D. L., Norman, G. R., & Cairney, J. (2015). Health Measurement Scales: A Practical Guide to Their Development and Use (5th ed.). Oxford University Press. · ISBN 978-0199685219
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Same method familyComputerized Adaptive Testingmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyDiagnostic Accuracy Study Designmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.See alsoItem Response Theorymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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