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Cognitive-Style Differences in Testing Situations.
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Armstrong, Anne-Marie – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1993
The effects of test performance of differentially written multiple-choice tests and test takers' cognitive style were studied for 47 graduate students and 35 public school and college teachers. Adhering to test-writing item guidelines resulted in mean scores basically the same for two groups of differing cognitive style. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Faculty, Comparative Testing, Graduate Students