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Measuring Test-Taking Effort on Constructed-Response Items with Item Response Time and Number of Actions
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Militsa G. Ivanova; Michalis P. Michaelides – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2023
Research on methods for measuring examinee engagement with constructed-response items is limited. The present study used data from the PISA 2018 Reading domain to construct and compare indicators of test-taking effort on constructed-response items: response time, number of actions, the union (combining effortless responses detected by either…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
Cultural Biases: A Non-Anglophone Perspective
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Nardi, Emma – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2008
In response to Barry McGaw's article "The role of the OECD in international comparative studies of achievement", this contribution explores two issues which the author considers closely interrelated. The first issue concerns the quality of the items produced to assess reading skills in the OECD-PISA and OECD-SIALS studies and the…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Reading Skills
PISA Reading: Cultural Equivalence in a Cross-Cultural Study.
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McQueen, Joy; Mendelovits, Juliette – Language Testing, 2003
Discusses steps taken to attain cultural relevance and appropriateness in the reading literacy construct, and in the stimulus materials and items that operationalize it. Explains the influence of multilingual considerations on the development of the reading literacy assessment instrument and notes psychometric procedures used to maximize the…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Language Tests, Literacy, Psychometrics