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Afsharrad, Mohammad; Pishghadam, Reza; Baghaei, Purya – International Journal of Language Testing, 2023
Testing organizations are faced with increasing demand to provide subscores in addition to the total test score. However, psychometricians argue that most subscores do not have added value to be worth reporting. To have added value, subscores need to meet a number of criteria: they should be reliable, distinctive, and distinct from each other and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Scores, Value Added Models, Psychometrics
Luan, Lin; Liang, Jyh-Chong; Chai, Ching Sing; Lin, Tzu-Bin; Dong, Yan – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
The emergence of new media technologies has empowered individuals to not merely consume but also create, share and critique media contents. Such activities are dependent on new media literacy (NML) necessary for living and working in the participatory culture of the twenty-first century. Although a burgeoning body of research has focused on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Media Literacy, Test Construction, English (Second Language)
Andrew M. Olney – Grantee Submission, 2023
Multiple choice questions are traditionally expensive to produce. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have led to fine-tuned LLMs that generate questions competitive with human-authored questions. However, the relative capabilities of ChatGPT-family models have not yet been established for this task. We present a carefully-controlled…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Multiple Choice Tests, Test Items, Algorithms
Kuijpers, Renske E.; Visser, Ingmar; Molenaar, Dylan – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2021
Mixture models have been developed to enable detection of within-subject differences in responses and response times to psychometric test items. To enable mixture modeling of both responses and response times, a distributional assumption is needed for the within-state response time distribution. Since violations of the assumed response time…
Descriptors: Test Items, Responses, Reaction Time, Models
Hansen, John; Stewart, John – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
This work is the fourth of a series of papers applying multidimensional item response theory (MIRT) to widely used physics conceptual assessments. This study applies MIRT analysis using both exploratory and confirmatory methods to the Brief Electricity and Magnetism Assessment (BEMA) to explore the assessment's structure and to determine a…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Science Tests, Energy, Magnets
Abu-Ghazalah, Rashid M.; Dubins, David N.; Poon, Gregory M. K. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2023
Multiple choice results are inherently probabilistic outcomes, as correct responses reflect a combination of knowledge and guessing, while incorrect responses additionally reflect blunder, a confidently committed mistake. To objectively resolve knowledge from responses in an MC test structure, we evaluated probabilistic models that explicitly…
Descriptors: Guessing (Tests), Multiple Choice Tests, Probability, Models
Mateja Ploj Virtic; Andre Du Plessis; Andrej Šorgo – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2023
In the context of improving the quality of teacher education, the focus of the present work was to adapt the Mentoring for Effective Primary Science Teaching instrument to become more universal and have the potential to be used beyond the elementary science mentoring context. The adapted instrument was renamed the Mentoring for Effective Teaching…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Test Reliability, Measures (Individuals)
Schmid, Kelly M.; Lee, Dennis; Weindling, Monica; Syed, Awais; Agyemang, Stephanie-Louise Yacoba; Donovan, Brian; Radick, Gregory; Smith, Michelle K. – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2022
Undergraduate genetics courses have historically focused on simple genetic models, rather than taking a more multifactorial approach where students explore how traits are influenced by a combination of genes, the environment, and gene-by-environment interactions. While a focus on simple genetic models can provide straightforward examples to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Genetics, Science Instruction, Models
Sansom, Rebecca L.; Suh, Erica; Plummer, Kenneth J. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2019
Heat and enthalpy are challenging topics for general chemistry students because they are conceptually complex and require avariety of quantitative problem-solving approaches. Expert chemists draw on conditional knowledge, deciding when and under what conditions a certain problem-solving approach should be used. Decision-based learning (DBL)…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Problem Solving, Science Instruction, Chemistry
Maseko, Jeremiah; Luneta, Kakoma; Long, Caroline – Pythagoras, 2019
The rational number knowledge of student teachers, in particular the equivalence of fractions, decimals, and percentages, and their comparison and ordering, is the focus of this article. An instrument comprising multiple choice, short answer and constructed response formats was designed to test conceptual and procedural understanding. Application…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Number Concepts, Test Validity, Models
Wu, Qian; De Laet, Tinne; Janssen, Rianne – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2019
Single-best answers to multiple-choice items are commonly dichotomized into correct and incorrect responses, and modeled using either a dichotomous item response theory (IRT) model or a polytomous one if differences among all response options are to be retained. The current study presents an alternative IRT-based modeling approach to…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Item Response Theory, Test Items, Responses
Tatarinova, Galiya; Neamah, Nour Raheem; Mohammed, Aisha; Hassan, Aalaa Yaseen; Obaid, Ali Abdulridha; Ismail, Ismail Abdulwahhab; Maabreh, Hatem Ghaleb; Afif, Al Khateeb Nashaat Sultan; Viktorovna, Shvedova Irina – International Journal of Language Testing, 2023
Unidimensionality is an important assumption of measurement but it is violated very often. Most of the time, tests are deliberately constructed to be multidimensional to cover all aspects of the intended construct. In such situations, the application of unidimensional item response theory (IRT) models is not justifieddue to poor model fit and…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Test Items, Language Tests, Correlation
Min, Shangchao; Cai, Hongwen; He, Lianzhen – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2022
The present study examined the performance of the bi-factor multidimensional item response theory (MIRT) model and higher-order (HO) cognitive diagnostic models (CDM) in providing diagnostic information and general ability estimation simultaneously in a listening test. The data used were 1,611 examinees' item-level responses to an in-house EFL…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
Geramipour, Masoud – Language Testing in Asia, 2021
Rasch testlet and bifactor models are two measurement models that could deal with local item dependency (LID) in assessing the dimensionality of reading comprehension testlets. This study aimed to apply the measurement models to real item response data of the Iranian EFL reading comprehension tests and compare the validity of the bifactor models…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Reading Tests
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2023
This article aims to give a comprehensive guide to planning and designing vocabulary tests which include Identifying the skills to be covered by the test; outlining the course content covered; preparing a table of specifications that shows the skill, content topics and number of questions allocated to each; and preparing the test instructions. The…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Learning Processes, Test Construction, Course Content