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Download full textPowers, Donald E.; O'Neill, Kathleen – 1992
The objective of this study was to assess the degree to which the mode of administration of the computer-based Academic Skills Assessments of the "Praxis Series: Professional Assessments for Beginning Teachers" contributes to performance differences among test takers. Inexperienced or anxious computer users (Praxis pilot sample of 446…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, College Students, Computer Anxiety, Computer Assisted Testing
Tannenbaum, Richard J.; And Others – 1993
The purpose of this study was to determine if the 55 test specifications for the Praxis I: Academic Skills Assessments computer-based tests (CBT) and the Praxis I: Pre-Professional Skills Tests (PPST) were judged to be appropriate for entry-level vocational education teachers regardless of specialty area. The test specification statements were…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Computer Assisted Testing, Evaluation Methods, Postsecondary Education
Sheehan, Kathleen; Mislevy, Robert J. – 1994
The operating characteristics of 114 mathematics pretest items from the Praxis I: Computer Based Test were analyzed in terms of item attributes and test developers' judgments of item difficulty. Item operating characteristics were defined as the difficulty, discrimination, and asymptote parameters of a three parameter logistic item response theory…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Computer Assisted Testing, Difficulty Level, Educational Assessment
