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Chissom, Brad; Chukabarah, Prince C. O. – 1985
The comparative effects of various sequences of test items were examined for over 900 graduate students enrolled in an educational research course at The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. experiment, which was conducted a total of four times using four separate tests, presented three different arrangements of 50 multiple-choice items: (1)…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Comparative Testing, Difficulty Level, Graduate Students
Download full textAnderson, Paul S.; Kanzler, Eileen M. – 1985
Test scores were compared for two types of objective achievement tests--multiple choice tests and the recently developed Multi-Digit Test (MDT) procedure. MDT is an approximation of the fill-in-the-blank technique. Students select their answers from long lists of alphabetized terms, with each answer corresponding to a number from 001 to 999. The…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cloze Procedure, Comparative Testing, Computer Assisted Testing
Macpherson, Colin R.; Rowley, Glenn L. – 1986
Teacher-made mastery tests were administered in a classroom-sized sample to study their decision consistency. Decision-consistency of criterion-referenced tests is usually defined in terms of the proportion of examinees who are classified in the same way after two test administrations. Single-administration estimates of decision consistency were…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Comparative Testing, Criterion Referenced Tests, Cutting Scores
