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Shraim, Khitam – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2019
Online examinations, commonly known as electronic examinations (e-exams), are becoming increasingly implemented in higher education institutions in Palestine. However, learners' perspectives on these exams remain unexplored. This study therefore examines learners' perceptions of the online examination practices at Palestine Technical…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students
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Allehaiby, Wid Hasen; Al-Bahlani, Sara – Arab World English Journal, 2021
One of the main challenges higher educational institutions encounter amid the recent COVID-19 crisis is transferring assessment approaches from the traditional face-to-face form to the online Emergency Remote Teaching approach. A set of language assessment principles, practicality, reliability, validity, authenticity, and washback, which can be…
Descriptors: Barriers, Distance Education, Evaluation Methods, Teaching Methods
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Ghilay, Yaron; Ghilay, Ruth – Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
The study examined advantages and disadvantages of computerised assessment compared to traditional evaluation. It was based on two samples of college students (n=54) being examined in computerised tests instead of paper-based exams. Students were asked to answer a questionnaire focused on test effectiveness, experience, flexibility and integrity.…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Higher Education, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing
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Tracy, Lane – Social Behavior and Personality, 1987
Conducted two studies to examine validity of scales measuring consideration and initiating structure as basic dimensions of leader behavior. Results indicated that the factors were multidimensional and probably did not represent fundamental dimensions of leader behavior. Found relevant scales of Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire to be…
Descriptors: Behavior, College Students, Construct Validity, Higher Education
Ellett, Frederick S., Jr. – 1980
Certain conditions are investigated as to whether they are necessary or sufficient to indicate the fairness of a test, or predictor, in its role in the college admissions procedure. Eight general positions are considered that have claimed to provide sufficient conditions for the unbiasedness of a standardized test or predictor: (1) equal test…
Descriptors: College Admission, College Entrance Examinations, Culture Fair Tests, Higher Education
Nieves, Luis – 1976
Alternate admission systems are reviewed in respect to the minority applicant in an attempt to assess the nature of the bias frequently referred to in connection with standardized testing. The connection between the use of the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) as a standardized test and the admission system was explored, concluding that the role…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Admission, College Entrance Examinations, Graduate Study
Jones, Marshall B. – 1991
The microcomputer has increased interest in performance testing, which samples what a person can do rather than what he or she knows. Conventional psychometric theory is based on knowledge tests, but in performance testing the unit of analysis is a trial, and it is unreasonable to assume that mean performance and interim correlations are…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Higher Education, Military Personnel, Performance Based Assessment
Laing, Joan; Farmer, Merine – 1984
This report summarizes selected information from American College Testing (ACT) Program records (1978-79 through 1982-83) for five groups of ACT Assessment examinees: (1) examinees who indicated that they did not have a disability that might require special services from the college they planned to attend (these examinees tested on national test…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Disabilities, Grade Point Average, Hearing Impairments
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Lusk, Edward J.; Wright, Haviland – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1981
Results are presented which suggest that the learning occurring between two sections of the Group Embedded Fiqures Test is independent of the order in which the sections are worked. (Author/GK)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Learning, Scores
Hecht, Kathryn A.; Fortune, Jim C. – 1976
The need for better validation of professional licensing and certification examinations is discussed in Part I. Predictive criterion-related validation studies are difficult to develop, time consuming, impractical and expensive. Since training and knowledge variables are not necessarily sufficient to predict job proficiency, it appears logical to…
Descriptors: Certification, Criterion Referenced Tests, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Baird, Leonard L. – NCME, 1977
Following their first year of advanced study, two samples of students were polled. Study one analyzed the attitudes of 4,248 studnets toward the admission test they had taken: Graduate Record Examinations (GRE), Law School Admission Test (LSAT), Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), Admission Test for Graduate Study in Business, or the Miller…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Entrance Examinations, Evaluation Criteria, Graduate Students
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Brossell, Gordon – College English, 1983
Concludes that the rhetorical specification approach to developing essay examination topics (giving writers information about the purpose of a composition, its audience, speaker, and subject) may not be the best way to elicit good writing. (JL)
Descriptors: Essay Tests, Higher Education, Test Validity, Testing Problems
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Sypher, Howard E.; Applegate, James L. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1982
The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which Crockett's Role Category Questionnaire (RCQ) is confounded by verbal ability. Participants included 285 undergraduates from a large southern university. The results show the RCQ to be independent of the verbal abilities measures. (Author/BW)
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Higher Education, Interpersonal Relationship, Test Validity
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Deffenbacher, Jerry L.; Deitz, Sheila R. – Psychology in the Schools, 1978
Test performance and reported anxiety levels of high and low test-anxious subjects taking either a regular exam or an exam containing brief, written relaxation instructions were compared. High test-anxious subjects performed more poorly and reported greater worry and emotionality. Results provide greater external validity for Test Anxiety Scale.…
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Students, Higher Education, Research Projects
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Schriesheim, Chester A.; Hill, Kenneth D. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1981
The empirical evidence does not support the prevailing conventional wisdom that it is advisable to mix positively and negatively worded items in psychological measures to counteract acquiescence response bias. An experiment, evaluating subjects' ability to respond accurately to both positive and reversed items on a questionnaire, analyzed post-hoc…
Descriptors: Bias, Higher Education, Questionnaires, Response Style (Tests)
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