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Cluxton, Sue Ellen; Mandeville, Garrett K. – 1979
A comparison was made between four different scoring procedures for the 45-item Reading Comprehension subtest, Level I, of the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills, Form S, for a sample of 1,000 third grade students. These students were selected to have been among those who omitted from 3 to 22 of the 45 items. Another representative sample of 1,300…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Guessing (Tests), Item Sampling, Latent Trait Theory
Lowry, Stephen R. – 1979
A specially designed answer format was used for three tests in a college level agriculture class of 19 students to record responses to three things about each item: (1) the student's choice of the best answer; (2) the degree of certainty with which the answer was chosen; and (3) all the answer choices which the student was certain were incorrect.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Confidence Testing, Guessing (Tests), Higher Education