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Grace C. Tetschner; Sachin Nedungadi – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2025
Many undergraduate chemistry students hold alternate conceptions related to resonance--an important and fundamental topic of organic chemistry. To help address these alternate conceptions, an organic chemistry instructor could administer the resonance concept inventory (RCI), which is a multiple-choice assessment that was designed to identify…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Item Response Theory, Scores
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Yalinkilic, Funda; Gul, Seyda – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2023
The aim of this study is to develop a valid and reliable achievement test on the subject of 'Basic Compounds in the Structure of Living Things'. During the preparation of the draft form of the test, a 32 item-question pool was created by the researchers in the light of the relevant literature. Then, these questions were presented to expert opinion…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Science Achievement, Science Tests, Test Validity
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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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Büsra Kilinç; Mehmet Diyaddin Yasar – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2024
In this study, it was aimed to develop an achievement test taking into account the subject acquisitions of the sound and properties unit in the sixth-grade science course. In the test development phase, firstly, literature review for the study was conducted. Then, 30 multiple choice questions in align with the subject acquisition in the 2018…
Descriptors: Science Tests, Test Construction, Grade 6, Science Instruction
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Güntay Tasçi – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2024
The present study has aimed to develop and validate a protein concept inventory (PCI) consisting of 25 multiple-choice (MC) questions to assess students' understanding of protein, which is a fundamental concept across different biology disciplines. The development process of the PCI involved a literature review to identify protein-related content,…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Tests, Multiple Choice Tests, Biology
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Güntay Tasci – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2024
Developing tools to identify students' misconceptions about basic biology concepts is necessary. Therefore, a two-tier diagnostic test was developed to determine such misconceptions in primary school (3rd-4th Grade) students. The test content includes two-tiered multiple-choice questions addressing common misconceptions found in the literature on…
Descriptors: Science Tests, Biology, Diagnostic Tests, Misconceptions
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Dina Kamber Hamzic; Mirsad Trumic; Ismar Hadžalic – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2025
Trigonometry is an important part of secondary school mathematics, but it is usually challenging for students to understand and learn. Since trigonometry is learned and used at a university level in many fields, like physics or geodesy, it is important to have an insight into students' trigonometry knowledge before the beginning of the university…
Descriptors: Trigonometry, Mathematics Instruction, Prior Learning, Outcomes of Education
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Fitria Lafifa; Dadan Rosana – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2024
This research goal to develop a multiple-choice closed-ended test to assessing and evaluate students' digital literacy skills. The sample in this study were students at MTsN 1 Blitar City who were selected using a purposive sampling technique. The test was also validated by experts, namely 2 Doctors of Physics and Science from Yogyakarta State…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Student Evaluation, Digital Literacy, Multiple Choice Tests
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Slepkov, Aaron D.; Godfrey, Alan T. K. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2019
The answer-until-correct (AUC) method of multiple-choice (MC) testing involves test respondents making selections until the keyed answer is identified. Despite attendant benefits that include improved learning, broad student adoption, and facile administration of partial credit, the use of AUC methods for classroom testing has been extremely…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Test Items, Test Reliability, Scores
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Ali, Ikram; Haral, Muhammad Nouman; Tahira, Fatima; Ali, Mirza; Imran, Aqeel – Education and Urban Society, 2020
Foundation of quality examination is based on the key features of validity and reliability of question papers. Question papers of examination boards in Pakistan--usually these features as contents of a question paper--are written by a single paper setter. To address these issues, Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multiple Choice Tests, Test Items, Difficulty Level
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Guven Demir, Elif; Öksuz, Yücel – Participatory Educational Research, 2022
This research aimed to investigate animation-based achievement tests according to the item format, psychometric features, students' performance, and gender. The study sample consisted of 52 fifth-grade students in Samsun/Turkey in 2017-2018. Measures of the research were open-ended (OE), animation-based open-ended (AOE), multiple-choice (MC), and…
Descriptors: Animation, Achievement Tests, Test Items, Psychometrics
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Timur, Serkan; Önder, Eylem Yalçinkaya; Timur, Betül; Ekici, Meltem – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2020
In this study, a valid and reliable multiple-choice achievement test has been developed in order to measure the academic achievement of 8th grade students about the units of "States of Matter and Heat" and "Electricity in Our Life". The pilot study of the achievement test was carried out with 30 questions which were prepared…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Science Tests, Achievement Tests, Energy
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Rudibyani, Ratu Betta; Perdana, Ryzal; Elisanti, Evi – International Journal of Instruction, 2020
The development of knowledge assessment instrument based on problem solving in the electrochemistry. This research aimed to find out the characteristics, teacher responses, and student responses to the problem-based knowledge assessment instrument on the electrochemistry material. The research method used is research and development which consists…
Descriptors: Science Tests, Student Evaluation, Test Construction, Problem Solving
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Carli, Marta; Lippiello, Stefania; Pantano, Ornella; Perona, Mario; Tormen, Giuseppe – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
In this article, we discuss the development and the administration of a multiple-choice test, which we named "Test of Calculus and Vectors in Mathematics and Physics" (TCV-MP), aimed at comparing students' ability to answer questions on derivatives, integrals, and vectors in a purely mathematical context and in the context of physics.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Tests, Science Tests, Multiple Choice Tests, Calculus
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Soeharto, Soeharto – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2021
This study aims to evaluate the psychometric properties of the developed diagnostic assessment test and to identify student misconceptions in science in terms of school grades. 153 students were gathered by using random sample from 10th to 12th grade in senior high schools. The 32 items of the two-tier multiple-choice diagnostic test were…
Descriptors: Grade 12, High School Students, Scientific Attitudes, Misconceptions
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