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Johnston, Michael; Wood, Bronwyn Elisabeth; Cherrington, Sue; Boniface, Suzanne; Mortlock, Anita – Educational Assessment, 2022
In this paper, we report an exploratory investigation of the types of assessment in a variety of high school subjects that best predicted subsequent success at university in those subjects. In social sciences and the humanities, internal (school-based) assessment was a better predictor of university success than external, examination-based…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement, High School Students
Hickson, Stephen; Reed, W. Robert; Sander, Nicholas – Educational Assessment, 2012
This study investigates the degree to which grades based solely on constructed-response (CR) questions differ from grades based solely on multiple-choice (MC) questions. If CR questions are to justify their higher costs, they should produce different grade outcomes than MC questions. We use a data set composed of thousands of observations on…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Student Evaluation, Multiple Choice Tests, Observation