The Low Bar Item Draft Acceptability Tool (LBIDAT) & Creativity-Based Item Draft Acceptability Tool (CBIDAT)

The LBIDAT and CBIDAT are designed to evaluate the quality of unrefined drafts of items for large scale assessment development, such as might be submitted by item writers and/or automatic item generation. The LBIDAT does not determine whether an item draft is ready for use, but rather the existence and location of critical issues they may render an item unusable. The CBIDAT focuses entirely on the item logic of the draft to consider whether it might be a good new basis for future items. Even high scoring item drafts will still require significant additional professional refinement and polish before use.