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Peer reviewedKoehler, Roger A. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1971
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Confidence Testing, Grade 11
Angoff, William H.; Schrader, William B. – 1982
In a study to determine whether a shift from Formula scoring to Rights scoring can be made without causing a discontinuity in the test scale, the analysis of special administrations of the Scholastic Aptitude Test and Chemistry Achievement Test and the variable section of an operational form of the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) is…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Equated Scores, Guessing (Tests), Higher Education
Download full textCross, Lawrence H. – 1975
A novel scoring procedure was investigated in order to obtain scores from a conventional multiple-choice test that would be free of the guessing component or contain a known guessing component even though examinees were permitted to guess at will. Scores computed with the experimental procedure are based not only on the number of items answered…
Descriptors: Algebra, Comparative Analysis, Guessing (Tests), High Schools
Larkin, Kevin C.; Weiss, David J. – 1975
A 15-stage pyramidal test and a 40-item two-stage test were constructed and administered by computer to 111 college undergraduates. The two-stage test was found to utilize a smaller proportion of its potential score range than the pyramidal test. Score distributions for both tests were positively skewed but not significantly different from the…
Descriptors: Ability, Aptitude Tests, Comparative Analysis, Computer Programs
