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Direct linkAto Kwamina Arhin – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2024
Introduction: This article aimed at digging deep into distractors used for mathematics multiple-choice items. The quality of distractors may be more important than their number and the stem in a multiple-choice question. Little attention is given to this aspect of item writing especially, mathematics multiple-choice questions. This article…
Descriptors: Testing, Multiple Choice Tests, Test Items, Mathematics Tests
Download full textSánchez Sánchez, Ernesto; García Rios, Víctor N.; Silvestre Castro, Eleazar; Licea, Guadalupe Carrasco – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2020
In this paper, we address the following questions: What misconceptions do high school students exhibit in their first encounter with significance test problems through a repeated sampling approach? Which theory or framework could explain the presence and features of such patterns? With brief prior instruction on the use of Fathom software to…
Descriptors: High School Students, Misconceptions, Statistical Significance, Testing
Leopold, Doreen Geller; Edgar, Barbara – Journal of Chemical Education, 2008
We report on the contents and results for 360 students of a mathematics assessment administered at the start of the second-semester introductory chemistry course required for science and engineering majors at the University of Minnesota. This calculator-free, 20-question, 30-minute, multiple-choice, diagnostic quiz includes questions selected…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Mathematics Skills, Misconceptions, Introductory Courses
