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Jeff Allen; Ty Cruce – ACT Education Corp., 2025
This report summarizes some of the evidence supporting interpretations of scores from the enhanced ACT, focusing on reliability, concurrent validity, predictive validity, and score comparability. The authors argue that the evidence presented in this report supports the interpretation of scores from the enhanced ACT as measures of high school…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Testing, Change, Scores
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John B. Buncher; Jayson M. Nissen; Ben Van Dusen; Robert M. Talbot – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Research-based assessments (RBAs) allow researchers and practitioners to compare student performance across different contexts and institutions. In recent years, research attention has focused on the student populations these RBAs were initially developed with because much of that research was done with "samples of convenience" that were…
Descriptors: Science Tests, Physics, Comparative Analysis, Gender Differences
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Polat, Murat – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2022
Foreign language testing is a multi-dimensional phenomenon and obtaining objective and error-free scores on learners' language skills is often problematic. While assessing foreign language performance on high-stakes tests, using different testing approaches including Classical Test Theory (CTT), Generalizability Theory (GT) and/or Item Response…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Item Response Theory, Language Tests
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ALKursheh, Taha Okleh; Al-zboon, Habis Saad; AlNasraween, Mo'en Salman – International Journal of Instruction, 2022
This study aimed at comparing the effect of two test item formats (multiple-choice and complete) on estimating person's ability, item parameters and the test information function (TIF).To achieve the aim of the study, two format of mathematics(1) test have been created: multiple-choice and complete, In its final format consisted of (31) items. The…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Test Items, Item Response Theory, Test Format
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Sata, Mehmet; Karakaya, Ismail – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2022
In the process of measuring and assessing high-level cognitive skills, interference of rater errors in measurements brings about a constant concern and low objectivity. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of rater training on rater errors in the process of assessing individual performance. The study was conducted with a…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Training, Comparative Analysis, Academic Language
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Jeffry 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
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Lions, Séverin; Dartnell, Pablo; Toledo, Gabriela; Godoy, María Inés; Córdova, Nora; Jiménez, Daniela; Lemarié, Julie – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2023
Even though the impact of the position of response options on answers to multiple-choice items has been investigated for decades, it remains debated. Research on this topic is inconclusive, perhaps because too few studies have obtained experimental data from large-sized samples in a real-world context and have manipulated the position of both…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Test Items, Item Analysis, Responses
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Chng, J. J. Kenneth; Patuwo, Michael Yudistira – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
We described and ran a lesson plan for a build-your-own visible-range spectrophotometer undergraduate project as inspired by the research of Bougot-Robin, Imperial College London. Students were required to improve a basic Raspberry Pi spectrophotometer design and evaluate their improvements. Students learned firsthand how to manage instrumental…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Spectroscopy
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Dogan, C. Deha – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2017
Background: Most of the studies in academic journals use p values to represent statistical significance. However, this is not a good indicator of practical significance. Although confidence intervals provide information about the precision of point estimation, they are, unfortunately, rarely used. The infrequent use of confidence intervals might…
Descriptors: Sampling, Statistical Inference, Periodicals, Intervals
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Coggins, Joanne V.; Kim, Jwa K.; Briggs, Laura C. – Research in the Schools, 2017
The Gates-MacGinitie Reading Comprehension Test, fourth edition (GMRT-4) and the ACT Reading Tests (ACT-R) were administered to 423 high school students in order to explore the similarities and dissimilarities of data produced through classical test theory (CTT) and item response theory (IRT) analysis. Despite the many advantages of IRT…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Test Theory, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests
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Neuert, Cornelia Eva; Lenzner, Timo – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2016
In this study, we investigated whether incorporating eye tracking into cognitive interviewing is effective when pretesting survey questions. In the control condition, a cognitive interview was conducted using a standardized interview protocol that included pre-defined probing questions for about one-quarter of the questions in a 52-item…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Research Methodology, Interviews, Pretesting
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LaFlair, Geoffrey T.; Isbell, Daniel; May, L. D. Nicolas; Gutierrez Arvizu, Maria Nelly; Jamieson, Joan – Language Testing, 2017
Language programs need multiple test forms for secure administrations and effective placement decisions, but can they have confidence that scores on alternate test forms have the same meaning? In large-scale testing programs, various equating methods are available to ensure the comparability of forms. The choice of equating method is informed by…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Equated Scores, Testing Programs, Comparative Analysis
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Ing, Marsha; Victorino, Christine – Journal of Engineering Education, 2016
Background: Asian American experiences have been largely ignored in the engineering education research literature. Asian Americans are often considered as a homogenous group, despite including over 40 different ethnic subgroups who speak over 300 languages. The immigrant trajectories, cultural experiences, and college completion rates of Asian…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Learner Engagement, Engineering Education, Undergraduate Students
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Ravesloot, C. J.; Van der Schaaf, M. F.; Muijtjens, A. M. M.; Haaring, C.; Kruitwagen, C. L. J. J.; Beek, F. J. A.; Bakker, J.; Van Schaik, J.P.J.; Ten Cate, Th. J. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2015
Formula scoring (FS) is the use of a don't know option (DKO) with subtraction of points for wrong answers. Its effect on construct validity and reliability of progress test scores, is subject of discussion. Choosing a DKO may not only be affected by knowledge level, but also by risk taking tendency, and may thus introduce construct-irrelevant…
Descriptors: Scoring Formulas, Tests, Scores, Construct Validity
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Liu, Sha; Kunnan, Antony John – CALICO Journal, 2016
This study investigated the application of "WriteToLearn" on Chinese undergraduate English majors' essays in terms of its scoring ability and the accuracy of its error feedback. Participants were 163 second-year English majors from a university located in Sichuan province who wrote 326 essays from two writing prompts. Each paper was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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