Testlets

The term testlets was first officially introduced in late 1980s and defined as

• “a group of items related to a single content area that is developed as a unit and contains a fixed number of predetermined paths that an examinee may follow.”¹⁾

Simplified, testlets:²⁾

• are small tests of single units from which together construct a test;
• should be small enough to manipulate but big enough to carry their own context;
• can be used to balance contents of a test.