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Optimizing Multiple-Choice Questions for Retrieval Practice: Delayed Display of Answer Alternatives Enhances Vocabulary Learning
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van den Broek, Gesa S. E.; Gerritsen, Suzanne L.; Oomen, Iris T. J.; Velthoven, Eva; van Boxtel, Femke H. J.; Kester, Liesbeth; van Gog, Tamara – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are popular in vocabulary software because they can be scored automatically and are compatible with many input devices (e.g., touchscreens). Answering MCQs is beneficial for learning, especially when learners retrieve knowledge from memory to evaluate plausible answer alternatives. However, such retrieval may not…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Vocabulary Development, Test Format, Cues
Effects of Training Peer Tutors in Content Knowledge versus Tutoring Skills on Giving Feedback to Help Tutees' Complex Tasks
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Hsiao, Ya Ping; Brouns, Francis; van Bruggen, Jan; Sloep, Peter B. – Educational Studies, 2015
This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of training tutors in content knowledge of a particular domain versus training them in tutoring skills of pedagogical knowledge when tutoring on a complex tutee task. Forty-seven tutor--tutee pairs of fourth-year secondary school students were created and assigned to one of the two treatments.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tutor Training, Peer Teaching, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
An Experimental Study on the Effects of a Simulation Game on Students' Clinical Cognitive Skills and Motivation
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Dankbaar, Mary E. W.; Alsma, Jelmer; Jansen, Els E. H.; van Merrienboer, Jeroen J. G.; van Saase, Jan L. C. M.; Schuit, Stephanie C. E. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2016
Simulation games are becoming increasingly popular in education, but more insight in their critical design features is needed. This study investigated the effects of fidelity of open patient cases in adjunct to an instructional e-module on students' cognitive skills and motivation. We set up a three-group randomized post-test-only design: a…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Thinking Skills, Computer Games, Motivation
Objective Based Tests for Reading Comprehension.
van Roosmalen, Willem M. M. – 1983
The construction of objective tests for native language reading comprehension is described. The tests were designed for the early secondary school years in several kinds of schools, vocational and non-vocational. The description focuses on the use of the Rasch model in test development, to develop a large pool of homogenous items and establish…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Difficulty Level, Foreign Countries, Item Banks
Practice and Problems in Language Testing 5. Non-Classical Test Theory; Final Examinations in Secondary Schools. Papers Presented at the International Language Testing Symposium (5th, Arnhem, Netherlands, March 25-26, 1982).
van Weeren, J., Ed. – 1983
Presented in this symposium reader are nine papers, four of which deal with the theory and impact of the Rasch model on language testing and five of which discuss final examinations in secondary schools in both general and specific terms. The papers are: "Introduction to Rasch Measurement: Some Implications for Language Testing" (J. J.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Difficulty Level