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Ebel, Robert L. – 1981
An alternate-choice test item is a simple declarative sentence, one portion of which is given with two different wordings. For example, "Foundations like Ford and Carnegie tend to be (1) eager (2) hesitant to support innovative solutions to educational problems." The examinee's task is to choose the alternative that makes the sentence…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Difficulty Level, Guessing (Tests), Multiple Choice Tests
Allen, Nancy L.; And Others – 1992
Many testing programs include a section of optional questions in addition to mandatory parts of a test. These optional parts of a test are not often truly parallel to one another, and groups of examinees selecting each optional test section are not equivalent to one another. This paper provides a general method based on missing-data methods for…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Estimation (Mathematics), Graphs, Scaling
Thiede, Keith W.; And Others – 1991
A correlational analysis was performed to examine the relationship between recognition and recall test formats. A total of 236 college students completed one of four 80-item general knowledge tests; the forms contained 20 items of each of four formats: (1) true; (2) false; (3) multiple-choice; and (4) free response. Ninety-three of the subjects…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Comparative Testing, Correlation
Blumberg, Phyllis – 1980
To help determine the role that test instrument formats play in evaluation, two parallel examinations were given to 227 second-year medical students. The tests were based on information presented in a medical case history. One required students to generate their own problem lists (the generate group); the other required the students to select…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Comparative Testing, Cues, Higher Education
Lunz, Mary E.; Stahl, John A. – 1990
Three examinations administered to medical students were analyzed to determine differences among severities of judges' assessments and among grading periods. The examinations included essay, clinical, and oral forms of the tests. Twelve judges graded the three essays for 32 examinees during a 4-day grading session, which was divided into eight…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Comparative Testing, Difficulty Level, Essay Tests
Rodriguez-Aragon, Graciela; And Others – 1993
The predictive power of the Split-Half version of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children--Revised (WISC-R) Object Assembly (OA) subtest was compared to that of the full administration of the OA subtest. A cohort of 218 male and 49 female adolescent offenders detained in a Texas juvenile detention facility between 1990 and 1992 was used. The…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cohort Analysis, Comparative Testing, Correlation
Sykes, Robert C.; And Others – 1992
A part-form methodology was used to study the effect of varying degrees of multidimensionality on the consistency of pass/fail classification decisions obtained from simulated unidimensional item response theory (IRT) based licensure examinations. A control on the degree of form multidimensionality permitted an assessment throughout the range of…
Descriptors: Classification, Comparative Testing, Computer Simulation, Decision Making
Byrne, Barbara M.; Baron, Pierre – 1991
The aims of the present study were threefold: (1) to test for the equivalency of an hierarchical three-factor structure of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) across English and French versions for non-clinical adolescents; (2) given evidence of poor model fit, to validate the factorial structure of the BDI French version across three independent…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Testing, English, Factor Structure
Cizek, Gregory J. – 1991
A commonly accepted rule for developing equated examinations using the common-items non-equivalent groups (CINEG) design is that items common to the two examinations being equated should be identical. The CINEG design calls for two groups of examinees to respond to a set of common items that is included in two examinations. In practice, this rule…
Descriptors: Certification, Comparative Testing, Difficulty Level, Higher Education
Assessing the Effects of Computer Administration on Scores and Parameter Estimates Using IRT Models.
Sykes, Robert C.; And Others – 1991
To investigate the psychometric feasibility of replacing a paper-and-pencil licensing examination with a computer-administered test, a validity study was conducted. The computer-administered test (Cadm) was a common set of items for all test takers, distinct from computerized adaptive testing, in which test takers receive items appropriate to…
Descriptors: Adults, Certification, Comparative Testing, Computer Assisted Testing
Heller, Eric S.; Rife, Frank N. – 1987
The goal of this study was to assess the relative merit of various ranges and types of response scales in terms of respondent satisfaction and comfort and the nature of the elicited information in a population of seventh grade students. Three versions of an attitudinal questionnaire, each containing the same items but employing a different…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Comparative Testing, Grade 7, Junior High Schools
Enger, John M.; And Others – 1993
The response rates of university graduates and the cost per return were studied for a 20-item questionnaire presented in 3 formats as follows: (1) a 2-page questionnaire with an accompanying self-addressed stamped envelope; (2) a condensed format with smaller type, on 1 page, with a self-addressed stamped envelope; and (3) the single-page…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, College Graduates, Comparative Testing, Cost Effectiveness
Enger, John M.; And Others – 1992
This paper compares the response rates of university graduates on the following three formats of a questionnaire: (1) a two-page questionnaire that is to be returned with an accompanying self-addressed stamped envelope; (2) a format using smaller type and condensed format to present the questionnaire items on a single page that is to be returned…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, College Graduates, Comparative Testing, Educational Attitudes
Shavelson, Richard J.; And Others – 1988
This study investigated the relationships among the symbolic representation of problems given to students to solve, the mental representations they use to solve the problems, and the accuracy of their solutions. Twenty eleventh-grade science students were asked to think aloud as they solved problems on the ideal gas laws. The problems were…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Comparative Testing, Problem Solving, Response Style (Tests)
Huntley, Renee M.; And Others – 1990
This study investigated the effect of diagram formats on performance on geometry items in order to determine whether certain examinees are affected by different item formats and whether such differences arise from the different intellectual demands made by these formats. Thirty-two experimental, multiple-choice geometry items were administered in…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Entrance Examinations, Comparative Testing, Diagrams