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Immediate Feedback and Opportunity to Revise Answers to Open-Ended Questions
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Attali, Yigal; Powers, Don – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2010
Two experiments examine the psychometric effects of providing immediate feedback on the correctness of answers to open-ended questions, and allowing participants to revise their answers following feedback. Participants answering verbal and math questions are able to correct many of their initial incorrect answers, resulting in higher revised…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Psychometrics, Test Anxiety, Error Correction
Empirical Option Weighting with a Correction for Guessing
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Reilly, Richard R. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1975
Because previous reports have suggested that the lowered validity of tests scored with empirical option weights might be explained by a capitalization of the keying procedures on omitting tendencies, a procedure was devised to key options empirically with a "correction-for-guessing" constraint. (Author)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Graduate Study, Guessing (Tests), Scoring Formulas
Development and Initial Score Validation of the Teacher Multicultural Attitude Survey.
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Ponterotto, Joseph G.; Baluch, Suraiya; Greig, Tamasine; Rivera, Lourdes – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1998
Two coordinated studies involving 429 teachers and preservice teachers and 227 education graduate students were designed to develop and validate scores on an efficient self-report measure of multicultural awareness for teachers working in kindergarten through grade 12. The construct and criterion validity and reliability of the developed Teacher…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Cultural Awareness, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduate Students