This paper describes a program written to analyze the results of educational tests on an interactive computer. The program accepts tape input from an optical scanner. Included in the output are (a) score lists; (b) a frequency distribution, histogram, and statistics for the total scores; (c) measures of item difficulty and discrimination; (d) option analysis; and (e) simple estimates of latent trait mental test parameters.
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