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Moshinsky, Avital; Ziegler, David; Gafni, Naomi – International Journal of Testing, 2017
Many medical schools have adopted multiple mini-interviews (MMI) as an advanced selection tool. MMIs are expensive and used to test only a few dozen candidates per day, making it infeasible to develop a different test version for each test administration. Therefore, some items are reused both within and across years. This study investigated the…
Descriptors: Interviews, Medical Schools, Test Validity, Test Reliability
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Quaiser-Pohl, Claudia; Neuburger, Sarah; Heil, Martin; Jansen, Petra; Schmelter, Andrea – International Journal of Testing, 2014
This article presents a reanalysis of the data of 862 second and fourth graders collected in two previous studies, focusing on the influence of method (psychometric vs. chronometric) and stimulus type on the gender difference in mental-rotation accuracy. The children had to solve mental-rotation tasks with animal pictures, letters, or cube…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Accuracy, Age Differences
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He, Wei; Wolfe, Edward W. – International Journal of Testing, 2010
This article reports the results of a study of potential sources of item nonequivalence between English and Chinese language versions of a cognitive development test for preschool-aged children. Items were flagged for potential nonequivalence through statistical and judgment-based procedures, and the relationship between flag status and item…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Mandarin Chinese, Cognitive Development, Item Analysis