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Direct linkDaniel, Robert C.; Embretson, Susan E. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 2010
Cognitive complexity level is important for measuring both aptitude and achievement in large-scale testing. Tests for standards-based assessment of mathematics, for example, often include cognitive complexity level in the test blueprint. However, little research exists on how mathematics items can be designed to vary in cognitive complexity level.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Tests, Problem Solving, Test Items, Difficulty Level
Download full textEnright, Mary K.; And Others – 1995
A previous study of new item types for the analytical measure of the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) General Test found that the new items had many factors labeled verbal reasoning, informal reasoning, formal-deductive reasoning, and quantitative reasoning. The present study examined how processing differed for these item types in the context…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, College Students, Deduction, Evaluation Methods
Coutinho, Savia A. – Educational Research and Reviews, 2006
This study examined the relationship between the need for cognition, defined as the tendency to engage in effortful cognitive activity, and metacognition which is one's thinking about thinking and how these variables relate to intellectual task performance. Participants completed measures of need for cognition, metacognition, and problem-solved…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Correlation, Academic Achievement, Educational Psychology
Morley, Mary; Bridgeman, Brent; Lawless, René – ETS Research Report Series, 2004
This study investigated the transfer of solution strategies between close variants of quantitative reasoning questions. Pre- and posttests were obtained from 406 college undergraduates, all of whom took the same posttest; pretests varied such that one group of participants saw close variants of one set of posttest items while other groups saw…
Descriptors: Test Items, Mathematics Tests, Problem Solving, Pretests Posttests
Duran, Richard P.; And Others – 1987
Information about how Graduate Record Examination (GRE) examinees solve verbal analogy problems was obtained in this study through protocol analysis. High- and low-ability subjects who had recently taken the GRE General Test were asked to "think aloud" as they worked through eight analogy items. These items varied factorially on the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Analogy, Cognitive Ability, College Entrance Examinations
Peer reviewedBridgeman, Brent – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1992
Examinees in a regular administration of the quantitative portion of the Graduate Record Examination responded to particular items in a machine-scannable multiple-choice format. Volunteers (n=364) used a computer to answer open-ended counterparts of these items. Scores for both formats demonstrated similar correlational patterns. (SLD)
Descriptors: Answer Sheets, College Entrance Examinations, College Students, Comparative Testing
