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Download full textPrestwood, J. Stephen; Weiss, David J. – 1978
Volunteer college students were assigned to one of six computer administered vocabulary tests, one half with immediate knowledge of results (KR) after responding to each item, and the other half without knowledge of results. The six tests were designed to be at one of three levels of difficulty and consisted either of 50 preselected items…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Adaptive Testing, Anxiety, Computer Assisted Testing
Betz, Nancy E.; Weiss, David J. – 1976
The effects of providing immediate knowledge of results (KR) and adaptive testing on test anxiety and test-taking motivation were investigated. Also studied was the accuracy of student perceptions of the difficulty of adaptive and conventional tests administered with or without immediate knowledge of results. Testees were 350 college students…
Descriptors: Ability, Achievement Tests, Anxiety, Branching
Church, Austin T.; Weiss, David J. – 1980
A pilot study on the development and administration of a test using a spatial reasoning problem, the 15-puzzle, is described. The test utilizes on-line capabilities of a real-time computer to record an examinee's progress on each problem through a sequence of problem-solving "moves", and to collect additional on-line data that might be…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Cognitive Measurement, Computer Assisted Testing, Difficulty Level
