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Kentaro Fukushima; Nao Uchida; Kensuke Okada – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2025
Diagnostic tests are typically administered in a multiple-choice (MC) format due to their advantages of objectivity and time efficiency. The MC-deterministic input, noisy "and" gate (DINA) family of models, a representative class of cognitive diagnostic models for MC items, efficiently and parsimoniously estimates the mastery profiles of…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Cognitive Measurement, Multiple Choice Tests, Educational Assessment
Gülen, Salih – Science Education International, 2020
The aim of this study was to determine the knowledge of fifth-grade students about the sun, earth, and moon and to examine the fact that this information can be reflected with different measurement tools. A mixed method was used in the research. Quantitative data were collected using a 3-point Likert-type questionnaire and a true-false test; and…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Knowledge Level, Testing, Objective Tests
Hubbard, Joanna K.; Potts, Macy A.; Couch, Brian A. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2017
Assessments represent an important component of undergraduate courses because they affect how students interact with course content and gauge student achievement of course objectives. To make decisions on assessment design, instructors must understand the affordances and limitations of available question formats. Here, we use a crossover…
Descriptors: Test Format, Questioning Techniques, Undergraduate Students, Objective Tests
Schul, James E. – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2013
The American Historical Association's (AHA's) Commission on the Social Studies was a compilation of prominent scholars who, from 1929 to 1934, investigated social studies education in American public schools in order to provide some cohesive recommendations for teachers. The AHA Commission had a controversial ending, with one of its members,…
Descriptors: Testing, Objective Tests, Social Studies, Standardized Tests
Pan, Steven C.; Gopal, Arpita; Rickard, Timothy C. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016
Does correctly answering a test question about a multiterm fact enhance memory for the entire fact? We explored that issue in 4 experiments. Subjects first studied Advanced Placement History or Biology facts. Half of those facts were then restudied, whereas the remainder were tested using "5 W" (i.e., "who, what, when, where",…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Testing, Test Items, Memory
McAllister, Daniel; Guidice, Rebecca M. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2012
The primary goal of teaching is to successfully facilitate learning. Testing can help accomplish this goal in two ways. First, testing can provide a powerful motivation for students to prepare when they perceive that the effort involved leads to valued outcomes. Second, testing can provide instructors with valuable feedback on whether their…
Descriptors: Testing, Role, Student Motivation, Feedback (Response)
Harrison, Allyson G.; Green, Paul; Flaro, Lloyd – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2012
It is almost self-evident that test results will be unreliable and misleading if those undergoing assessments do not make a full effort on testing. Nevertheless, objective tests of effort have not typically been used with young adults to determine whether test results are valid or not. Because of the potential economic and/or recreational benefits…
Descriptors: Neuropsychology, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Stimulants, Testing Accommodations
Ackerman, Phillip L.; Wolman, Stacey D. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2007
How accurate are self-estimates of cognitive abilities? An investigation of self-estimates of verbal, math, and spatial abilities is reported with a battery of parallel objective tests of abilities. Self-estimates were obtained prior to and after objective ability testing (without test feedback) in order to examine whether self-estimates change…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Testing, Verbal Ability, Self Efficacy
Goldwater, Bram C.; Grabavac, Diana M.; Acker, Loren E. – International Journal of Testing, 2005
Regular testing can serve as an incentive for students to keep up with their readings, but the time and effort involved in composing and grading frequent tests can serve as an equally strong disincentive to time-strapped instructors. We describe a distorted-item (DI) test that simply requires excerpting sentences or phrases from the assigned…
Descriptors: Objective Tests, Test Construction, Testing, Student Attitudes
Handleman, Chester – Community College Social Science Journal, 1978
Discusses educational standards and accountability at open-door colleges. Suggests that reading, organizing, synthesizing, and writing skills are of prime importance and that, in order to strengthen these skills, at least one-third of all course testing should use a subjective format. (DR)
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Objectives, Essay Tests, Objective Tests

Kolstad, Rosemarie K.; And Others – Educational Research Quarterly, 1983
Complex multiple choice (CMC) items are frequently used to test knowledge about repetitive information. In two independent comparisons, performance on the CMC items surpassed that of the multiple true-false clusters. Data indicate that performance on CMC items is inflated, and distractors on CMC items fail to prevent guessing. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Guessing (Tests), Higher Education, Multiple Choice Tests, Objective Tests

Ducroquet, Lucile – System, 1980
Examines objectivity as a criterion for excellency in language tests through a critical presentation of the characteristics of objective tests. This examination leads to a discussion of what the best approach to testing language might be, endorsing a combination of integrative and objective techniques. (Author/MES)
Descriptors: Evaluation, Language Tests, Objective Tests, Second Language Instruction

Aiken, Lewis R. – Research in Higher Education, 1991
Research and practice in detecting and controlling for cheating on objective tests are reviewed and a small survey of attitudes and practices is reported. Potential of two computer programs to detect error similarities and use of multiple answer-sheet forms to control cheating are discussed. Teacher cheating is also addressed. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Answer Sheets, Cheating, Computer Software, Error Patterns

Negin, Gary A. – Journal of Legal Education, 1981
First-year law students in a torts course, assigned to three experimental groups receiving differing numbers of examinations, were found to retain more material when tested more often. Frequent testing is credited with demystifying the law, humanizing the teaching process, and improving legal education's effectiveness. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Higher Education, Legal Education, Objective Tests
Wahlstrom, Merl; Clandinin, Jean – School Guidance Worker, 1980
Focuses on objective techniques, a powerful and long-run force in educational assessment. But how successful have individual objective techniques been? This question must be answered for each test. Includes brief reference to an evaluation of one instrument. (Author)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Measurement Objectives, Objective Tests