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Download full textCase, Susan M.; And Others – 1988
An item format incorporating pattern recognition was designed to assess medical students' abilities in the area of clinical diagnosis. A group of approximately 20 faculty members of five New England medical schools met in Worcester for half of a day to develop pattern recognition items. Teams of four to six physicians were assigned to work on…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Higher Education, Item Analysis, Medical Evaluation
Bridgeman, Brent; Rock, Donald A. – 1993
Three new computer-administered item types for the analytical scale of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) General Test were developed and evaluated. One item type was a free-response version of the current analytical reasoning item type. The second item type was a somewhat constrained free-response version of the pattern identification (or…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, College Entrance Examinations, College Students, Computer Assisted Testing
PDF pending restorationHeinrich, Vivian; And Others – 1988
The validity of a spatial visualization test for selecting candidate engineering students was assessed. The test was administered to 300 out of the 318 students enrolled during the winter quarter of 1989 in the Engineering Graphics 110 course at a major state university. Developmental steps undertaken to enhance the theoretical basis and validity…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Entrance Examinations, Computer Assisted Testing, Engineering Education
