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Download full textTom Benton – Research Matters, 2024
Educational assessment is used throughout the world for a range of different formative and summative purposes. Wherever an assessment is developed, whether by a teacher creating a quiz for their class, or by a testing company creating a high stakes assessment, it is necessary to decide how long the test should be. Specifically, how many questions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Stakes Tests, Test Length, Test Construction
Murchan, Damian P. – 1989
The reliability, content validity, and construct validity were compared for two test formats in a public examination used to assess a secondary school geography course. The 11-item geography portion of the Intermediate Certificate Examination (essay examination) was administered in June 1987 to 400 secondary school students in Ireland who also…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Testing, Construct Validity, Content Validity
