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Peer reviewedJacobson, Jeanne M. – Educational Research Quarterly, 1990
The congruence among students' predictions of grades before taking short-answer and essay tests, their estimations of grades after taking the tests, and the actual grades was studied for 69 college students. There was a significant, but slight, positive relationship between students' judgments and their actual grades. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Testing, Essay Tests, Expectation
Download full textMurchan, Damian P. – 1989
The reliability, content validity, and construct validity were compared for two test formats in a public examination used to assess a secondary school geography course. The 11-item geography portion of the Intermediate Certificate Examination (essay examination) was administered in June 1987 to 400 secondary school students in Ireland who also…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Testing, Construct Validity, Content Validity
