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Séverin Lions; María Paz Blanco; Pablo Dartnell; Carlos Monsalve; Gabriel Ortega; Julie Lemarié – Applied Measurement in Education, 2024
Multiple-choice items are universally used in formal education. Since they should assess learning, not test-wiseness or guesswork, they must be constructed following the highest possible standards. Hundreds of item-writing guides have provided guidelines to help test developers adopt appropriate strategies to define the distribution and sequence…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Multiple Choice Tests, Guidelines, Test Items
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Archana Praveen Kumar; Ashalatha Nayak; Manjula Shenoy K.; Chaitanya; Kaustav Ghosh – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2024
Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) are a popular assessment method because they enable automated evaluation, flexible administration and use with huge groups. Despite these benefits, the manual construction of MCQs is challenging, time-consuming and error-prone. This is because each MCQ is comprised of a question called the "stem", a…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Test Construction, Test Items, Semantics
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Rekha; Shakeela K. – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2025
The main objective of the present study was to construct and standardize an achievement test in science for the secondary school science students in grade 8. An achievement test having 120 test items was prepared by the facilitator based on the four main learning objectives of teaching science that are knowledge, understanding, application, and…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Standardized Tests, Secondary School Students, Science Achievement
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Semere Kiros Bitew; Amir Hadifar; Lucas Sterckx; Johannes Deleu; Chris Develder; Thomas Demeester – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2024
Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are widely used in digital learning systems, as they allow for automating the assessment process. However, owing to the increased digital literacy of students and the advent of social media platforms, MCQ tests are widely shared online, and teachers are continuously challenged to create new questions, which is an…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Test Construction, Test Items
Olney, Andrew M. – Grantee Submission, 2022
Multi-angle question answering models have recently been proposed that promise to perform related tasks like question generation. However, performance on related tasks has not been thoroughly studied. We investigate a leading model called Macaw on the task of multiple choice question generation and evaluate its performance on three angles that…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Multiple Choice Tests, Test Items, Models
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Maristela Petrovic-Dzerdz – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2024
Large introductory classes, with their expansive curriculum, demand assessment strategies that blend efficiency with reliability, prompting the consideration of multiple-choice (MC) tests as a viable option. Crafting a high-quality MC test, however, necessitates a meticulous process involving reflection on assessment format appropriateness, test…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Test Construction, Test Items, Alignment (Education)
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Frank Feudel; Alexander Unger – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2025
In tertiary mathematics courses, students often have difficulties acquiring an understanding of the mathematical concepts covered. One approach to address this problem is to implement so-called Concept-Tests. These are multiple-choice questions whose distractors represent common problems and misconceptions related to the concepts. While there…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation
Thompson, Kathryn N. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
It is imperative to collect validity evidence prior to interpreting and using test scores. During the process of collecting validity evidence, test developers should consider whether test scores are contaminated by sources of extraneous information. This is referred to as construct irrelevant variance, or the "degree to which test scores are…
Descriptors: Test Wiseness, Test Items, Item Response Theory, Scores
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Mehmet Kanik – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2024
ChatGPT has surged interest to cause people to look for its use in different tasks. However, before allowing it to replace humans, its capabilities should be investigated. As ChatGPT has potential for use in testing and assessment, this study aims to investigate the questions generated by ChatGPT by comparing them to those written by a course…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Testing, Multiple Choice Tests, Test Construction
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Falcão, Filipe; Costa, Patrício; Pêgo, José M. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2022
Background: Current demand for multiple-choice questions (MCQs) in medical assessment is greater than the supply. Consequently, an urgency for new item development methods arises. Automatic Item Generation (AIG) promises to overcome this burden, generating calibrated items based on the work of computer algorithms. Despite the promising scenario,…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Test Items, Medical Education
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Acikgul, Kubra; Sad, Suleyman Nihat; Altay, Bilal – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2023
This study aimed to develop a useful test to measure university students' spatial abilities validly and reliably. Following a sequential explanatory mixed methods research design, first, qualitative methods were used to develop the trial items for the test; next, the psychometric properties of the test were analyzed through quantitative methods…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Scores, Multiple Choice Tests, Test Validity
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Andrew M. Olney – Grantee Submission, 2023
Multiple choice questions are traditionally expensive to produce. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have led to fine-tuned LLMs that generate questions competitive with human-authored questions. However, the relative capabilities of ChatGPT-family models have not yet been established for this task. We present a carefully-controlled…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Multiple Choice Tests, Test Items, Algorithms
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Julie Dickson; Darren J. Shaw; Andrew Gardiner; Susan Rhind – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2024
Limited research has been conducted on the spatial ability of veterinary students and how this is evaluated within anatomy assessments. This study describes the creation and evaluation of a split design multiple-choice question (MCQ) assessment (totaling 30 questions divided into 15 non-spatial MCQs and 15 spatial MCQs). Two cohorts were tested,…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Spatial Ability, Multiple Choice Tests, Factor Analysis
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Brennan, Robert L.; Kim, Stella Y.; Lee, Won-Chan – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2022
This article extends multivariate generalizability theory (MGT) to tests with different random-effects designs for each level of a fixed facet. There are numerous situations in which the design of a test and the resulting data structure are not definable by a single design. One example is mixed-format tests that are composed of multiple-choice and…
Descriptors: Multivariate Analysis, Generalizability Theory, Multiple Choice Tests, Test Construction
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Valentina Albano; Donatella Firmani; Luigi Laura; Jerin George Mathew; Anna Lucia Paoletti; Irene Torrente – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2023
Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are widely used in educational assessments and professional certification exams. Managing large repositories of MCQs, however, poses several challenges due to the high volume of questions and the need to maintain their quality and relevance over time. One of these challenges is the presence of questions that…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, Multiple Choice Tests, Test Items, Item Analysis
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