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Lina Anaya; Nagore Iriberri; Pedro Rey-Biel; Gema Zamarro – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
Standardized assessments are widely used to determine access to educational resources with important consequences for later economic outcomes in life. However, many design features of the tests themselves may lead to psychological reactions influencing performance. In particular, the level of difficulty of the earlier questions in a test may…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Wiseness, Test Items, Difficulty Level
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Schneider, Thorsten – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2004
Selecting elite students out of a huge collective is a difficult task. The main problem is to provide automated processes to reduce human work. ECMS (Educational Contest Management System) is an online tool approach to help--fully or partly automated--with the task of selecting such elite students out of a mass of candidates. International tests…
Descriptors: Management Systems, Selective Admission, Admission Criteria, Automation