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Melancon, Janet G.; Thompson, Bruce – 1988
Applied classical measurement theory was used to study the measurement characteristics of Forms A and B of the Finding Embedded Figures Test (FEFT) when the test is administered in a "no-guessing" or "supply" format. Data provided by 69 students at a private university in the southern United States were used. Both forms of the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Difficulty Level, Discriminant Analysis, Guessing (Tests)
Thompson, Bruce; Melancon, Janet G. – 1990
Effect sizes have been increasingly emphasized in research as more researchers have recognized that: (1) all parametric analyses (t-tests, analyses of variance, etc.) are correlational; (2) effect sizes have played an important role in meta-analytic work; and (3) statistical significance testing is limited in its capacity to inform scientific…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing, Correlation, Effect Size