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Direct linkYu Wang – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The multiple-choice (MC) item format has been widely used in educational assessments across diverse content domains. MC items purportedly allow for collecting richer diagnostic information. The effectiveness and economy of administering MC items may have further contributed to their popularity not just in educational assessment. The MC item format…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Cognitive Tests, Cognitive Measurement, Educational Diagnosis
Zebing Wu – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Response style, one common aberrancy in non-cognitive assessments in psychological fields, is problematic in terms of inaccurate estimation of item and person parameters, which leads to serious reliability, validity, and fairness issues (Baumgartner & Steenkamp, 2001; Bolt & Johnson, 2009; Bolt & Newton, 2011). Response style refers to…
Descriptors: Response Style (Tests), Accuracy, Preferences, Psychological Testing
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Download full textJeffry White – Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2024
Violations of normality and homogeneity are common in educational data. When this occurs, the use of parametric statistics may be inappropriate. A generalized form of nonparametric analyses based on the Puri and Sen L statistic provides an alternative approach. Using a chi-square distribution, this technique is easy to apply and has significant…
Descriptors: Nonparametric Statistics, Learning Analytics, Evaluation Methods, Guidance
