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High-Stakes Testing for Students with Mathematics Difficulty: Response Format Effects in Mathematics Problem Solving
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Powell, Sarah R. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2012
Students with disabilities are frequently granted accommodations for high-stakes standardized tests to provide them an opportunity to demonstrate their academic knowledge without interference from their disability. One type of possible accommodation, test response format, concerns whether students respond in multiple-choice or constructed-response…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Standardized Tests, Problem Solving, Mathematics Achievement
National Assessment of Mathematical Performance.
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Romberg, Thomas A. – 1986
Four topics related to mathematics testing for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are discussed: (1) mathematics achievement; (2) past NAEP approaches; (3) needed changes; and (4) a new conceptual basis for profiling mathematical performance, including recommendations for strengthening current practice. The basic strategy for…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Epistemology
Effects of Response Format on Diagnostic Assessment of Scholastic Achievement.
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Birenbaum, Menucha; And Others – Applied Psychological Measurement, 1992
The effect of multiple-choice (MC) or open-ended (OE) response format on diagnostic assessment of algebra test performance was investigated with 231 eighth and ninth graders in Tel Aviv (Israel) using bug or rule space analysis. Both analyses indicated closer similarity between parallel OE subsets than between stem-equivalent OE and MC subsets.…
Descriptors: Algebra, Comparative Testing, Educational Assessment, Educational Diagnosis
The Role of Anxiety in Examinee Preference for Self-Adapted Testing.
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Wise, Steven L.; And Others – 1993
This study assessed whether providing examinees with a choice between computerized adaptive testing (CAT) and self-adaptive testing (SAT) affects test performance in comparison with being assigned a CAT or SAT, and evaluated variables influencing examinee choice of either test form. The relative influences of test type and test choice on examinee…
Descriptors: Ability, Adaptive Testing, Algebra, College Students
Method of Measurement and Gender Differences in Scholastic Achievement.
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Bolger, Niall; Kellaghan, Thomas – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1990
Gender differences in scholastic achievement as a function of measurement method were examined by comparing performance of 739 15-year-old boys and 758 15-year-old girls in Irish high schools on multiple-choice and free-response tests of mathematics, Irish, and English achievement. Method-based gender differences are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Comparative Testing, English
On Their Own: Student Response to Open-Ended Tests in Math.
Badger, Elizabeth – 1989
This report presents a summary of information about the use in Massachusetts of open-ended questions in the Massachusetts Educational Assessment Program's biennial assessment of mathematics at grades 4, 8, and 12. These questions appeared in one form of the tests in each grade. One-twelfth of the fourth-graders, one-sixteenth of the…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 12