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Scotti di Uccio, Umberto; Colantonio, Arturo; Galano, Silvia; Marzoli, Irene; Trani, Fabio; Testa, Italo – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2019
We present the design, statistical analysis, and validation of a questionnaire to assess students' knowledge about basic aspects of quantum mechanics (QM). The QM evaluation (QME) is a true-false and multiple-choice mixed questionnaire that features 10 two-tier items spanning three relevant themes in quantum mechanics: wave behavior of matter,…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Test Construction, Test Validity, Quantum Mechanics
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Tetteh, Godson Ayertei; Sarpong, Frederick Asafo-Adjei – Journal of International Education in Business, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the influence of constructivism on assessment approach, where the type of question (true or false, multiple-choice, calculation or essay) is used productively. Although the student's approach to learning and the teacher's approach to teaching are concepts that have been widely researched, few…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Student Evaluation, Test Format
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Kendeou, Panayiota; Walsh, Erinn K.; Smith, Emily R.; O'Brien, Edward J. – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2014
In the present set of experiments, we systematically examined the processes that occur while reading texts designed to refute and explain commonsense beliefs that reside in readers' long-term memory. In Experiment 1 (n = 36), providing readers with a refutation-plus-explanation of a commonsense belief was sufficient to significantly reduce…
Descriptors: Long Term Memory, Beliefs, Misconceptions, Error Correction
Reid, Marilyn J. – 1972
The questionnaire used to elicit the attitudes of students toward school is presented. It consists of 75 true-false items. (For related document, see TM 002 762.) (KM)
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Objective Tests, Open Plan Schools, Questionnaires
Irvin, Larry K; And Others – 1978
Three tests of daily living skills for retarded adolescents were developed and validated: making purchases, seeking jobs, and using banks. These three tests were adapted from three of the nine sections of the Social and Prevocational Information Battery (SPIB), a test made up mostly of true-false items. Each of the three tests were developed in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Daily Living Skills, High Schools, Item Analysis