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Is This Year's Exam as Demanding as Last Year's? Using a Pilot Method to Evaluate the Consistency of Examination Demands over Time
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Crisp, Victoria; Novakovic, Nadezda – Evaluation & Research in Education, 2009
Maintaining standards over time is a much debated topic in the context of national examinations in the UK. This study used a pilot method to compare the demands, over time, of two examination units testing administration. The method involved 15 experts revising a framework of demand types and making paired comparisons of examinations from…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Test Reliability, Difficulty Level, Comparative Analysis