Background: Interview-based research has shown that students in higher education hold a number of different conceptions of learning and of themselves as learners. There is debate about whether these conceptions constitute a developmental hierarchy. Aims: This study evaluated the Mental Models section of Vermunt and van Rijswijk's (1988) Inventory…

Presents a table of discriminatory values for selecting test items based on mean differences in responses between upper and lower scorers in an normally distributed population. Provides a means for classifying items as poor, fair, or good. Describes a simple method for rank ordering accepted items. (Author/MJL)