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Spray, Judith A.; Welch, Catherine J. – 1986
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect that large within-examinee item difficulty variability had on estimates of the proportion of consistent classification of examinees into mastery categories over two test administrations. The classification consistency estimate was based on a single test administration from an estimation procedure…
Descriptors: Adults, Difficulty Level, Estimation (Mathematics), Mathematical Models
Winfield, Linda F. – 1984
The purpose of this pilot study was to investigate the relationship between achievement, teacher-reported letter grades, and instructional levels in a sample of 100 Chapter 1 students who had participated in the program for two years. For each student, third grade and fifth grade California Achievement Test scores, end-of-year letter grades, and…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Compensatory Education, Difficulty Level
Chissom, Brad; Chukabarah, Prince C. O. – 1985
The comparative effects of various sequences of test items were examined for over 900 graduate students enrolled in an educational research course at The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. experiment, which was conducted a total of four times using four separate tests, presented three different arrangements of 50 multiple-choice items: (1)…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Comparative Testing, Difficulty Level, Graduate Students
Tanner, David E. – 1986
A multiple choice achievement test was constructed in which both cognitive level and degree of abstractness were controlled. Subjects were 75 students from a major university in the Southwest. A group of 13 judges, also university students, classified the concepts for degree of abstractness. Results indicated that both cognitive level and degree…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Achievement Tests, Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Processes
Simmons, Johnny O. – 1985
This study examined the need to develop reliable and valid procedures for screening large populations for possible speech and language problems and the use of the Fluharty Preschool Speech and Language Screening Test (FPSLST) as such a device. The test was administered to 260 preschool children, ages three to six. There were 166 Blacks and 94…
Descriptors: Black Students, Comprehension, Correlation, Difficulty Level
Download full textAnderson, Paul S.; Kanzler, Eileen M. – 1985
Test scores were compared for two types of objective achievement tests--multiple choice tests and the recently developed Multi-Digit Test (MDT) procedure. MDT is an approximation of the fill-in-the-blank technique. Students select their answers from long lists of alphabetized terms, with each answer corresponding to a number from 001 to 999. The…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cloze Procedure, Comparative Testing, Computer Assisted Testing
