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Direct linkMeike Akveld; George Kinnear – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2024
Many universities use diagnostic tests to assess incoming students' preparedness for mathematics courses. Diagnostic test results can help students to identify topics where they need more practice and give lecturers a summary of strengths and weaknesses in their class. We demonstrate a process that can be used to make improvements to a mathematics…
Descriptors: Mathematics Tests, Diagnostic Tests, Test Items, Item Analysis
Download full textBenton, Tom – Research Matters, 2020
This article reviews the evidence on the extent to which experts' perceptions of item difficulties, captured using comparative judgement, can predict empirical item difficulties. This evidence is drawn from existing published studies on this topic and also from statistical analysis of data held by Cambridge Assessment. Having reviewed the…
Descriptors: Test Items, Difficulty Level, Expertise, Comparative Analysis
LoGiudice, Andrew B.; Norman, Geoffrey R.; Manzoor, Saba; Monteiro, Sandra – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2023
Students are often encouraged to learn 'deeply' by abstracting generalizable principles from course content rather than memorizing details. So widespread is this perspective that Likert-style inventories are now routinely administered to students to quantify how much a given course or curriculum evokes deep learning. The predictive validity of…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Transfer of Training, Likert Scales, Generalization
Ruel, Alexa; Chiarella, Sabrina S.; Crivello, Cristina; Poulin-Dubois, Diane – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2021
The Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (M-CHAT) is a screening questionnaire for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Previous findings have confirmed the M-CHAT's sensitivity and specificity across several cultures, yet few studies have considered M-CHAT scores as a distributed trait in a sample of typical infants. The current study examined…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Screening Tests, Autism, Scores
David Bell; Vikki O'Neill; Vivienne Crawford – Practitioner Research in Higher Education, 2023
We compared the influence of open-book extended duration versus closed book time-limited format on reliability and validity of written assessments of pharmacology learning outcomes within our medical and dental courses. Our dental cohort undertake a mid-year test (30xfree-response short answer to a question, SAQ) and end-of-year paper (4xSAQ,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Pharmacology, Pharmaceutical Education, Test Format
Durak, Ismail; Karagoz, Yalcin – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2021
The aim of this study is to adapt the Statistics Anxiety Scale (SAS) developed by Vigil-Colet et al. (2008) to Turkish. This study is expected to fill an important gap in the literature since no valid and reliable specific statistics anxiety scale developed or adapted in Turkish for undergraduate students in the literature is available. The sample…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Affective Measures, Statistics, Mathematics Anxiety
Gary A. Troia; Frank R. Lawrence; Julie S. Brehmer; Kaitlin Glause; Heather L. Reichmuth – Grantee Submission, 2023
Much of the research that has examined the writing knowledge of school-age students has relied on interviews to ascertain this information, which is problematic because interviews may underestimate breadth and depth of writing knowledge, require lengthy interactions with participants, and do not permit a direct evaluation of a prescribed array of…
Descriptors: Writing Tests, Writing Evaluation, Knowledge Level, Elementary School Students
Benton, Tom – Cambridge Assessment, 2018
One of the questions with the longest history in educational assessment is whether it is possible to increase the reliability of a test simply by altering the way in which scores on individual test items are combined to make the overall test score. Most usually, the score available on each item is communicated to the candidate within a question…
Descriptors: Test Items, Scoring, Predictive Validity, Test Reliability
Neitzel, Jennifer; Early, Diane; Sideris, John; LaForrett, Doré; Abel, Michael B.; Soli, Margaret; Davidson, Dawn L.; Haboush-Deloye, Amanda; Hestenes, Linda L.; Jenson, Denise; Johnson, Cindy; Kalas, Jennifer; Mamrak, Angela; Masterson, Marie L.; Mims, Sharon U.; Oya, Patti; Philson, Bobbi; Showalter, Megan; Warner-Richter, Mallory; Kortright Wood, Jill – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2019
The Early Childhood Environment Rating Scales, including the "Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale--Revised" (Harms et al., 2005) and the "Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale, Third Edition" (Harms et al., 2015) are the most widely used observational assessments in early childhood learning environments. The most recent…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Scoring
Pedaste, Margus; Baucal, Aleksandar; Reisenbuk, Elle – International Journal of STEM Education, 2021
Background: Inquiry-based learning is widely applied in science education; however, so far, the outcomes of learning process have been systematically assessed mainly at the secondary school level. For primary school students, there is no valid instrument for assessing the outcomes of their science inquiry. The aim of the current study was to…
Descriptors: Science Tests, Inquiry, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Students
Malone, Kathy L.; Boone, William J.; Stammen, Andria; Schuchardt, Anita; Ding, Lin; Sabree, Zakee – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2021
Instruments for assessing secondary students' conceptual understanding of core concepts in biology are needed by educational practitioners and researchers alike. Most instruments available for secondary biology (years 9 to 12) focus only on highly specific biological concepts instead of multiple core concepts. This study describes the development…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Test Construction, Construct Validity, Test Reliability
Bastianello, Tamara; Brondino, Margherita; Persici, Valentina; Majorano, Marinella – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2023
The present contribution aims at presenting an assessment tool (i.e., the TALK-assessment) built to evaluate the language development and school readiness of Italian preschoolers before they enter primary school, and its predictive validity for the children's reading and writing skills at the end of the first year of primary school. The early…
Descriptors: Literacy, Computer Assisted Testing, Italian, Language Acquisition
Quaid, Ethan Douglas – Language Testing in Asia, 2018
This paper reviews the International English Language Testing System's speaking sub-test in the East Asia region with reference to theoretical and practice-based perspectives and identifies future research opportunities to enhance the measures of test qualities found. The test's construct validity was seen to accurately measure the abilities…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Speech Tests
Žujovic, Alisa Murphy – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The role of the community college is constantly evolving. At its inception in the early 1900's, the community college's broad focus was to provide quality, affordable education to the members of the community the college serves. Today, that focus remains the same, but has also morphed into one that meets the specific needs of its students. One of…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Postsecondary Education, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
Wang, Yan; Kim, Eun Sook; Dedrick, Robert F.; Ferron, John M.; Tan, Tony – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2018
Wording effects associated with positively and negatively worded items have been found in many scales. Such effects may threaten construct validity and introduce systematic bias in the interpretation of results. A variety of models have been applied to address wording effects, such as the correlated uniqueness model and the correlated traits and…
Descriptors: Test Items, Test Format, Correlation, Construct Validity
