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Effects of Student-Written Questions on Student Test Performance.

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Foos, Paul W. – Teaching of Psychology, 1989

Looks at the effect of student-written test questions on student test performance. Students either wrote essay or multiple-choice questions, or did not write questions. Student items were not used on the test. Results indicate that question-writing is an effective studying technique. (Author/LS)

Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Higher Education, Introductory Courses, Learning Activities

The Use of Empirical versus Subjective Procedures for Identifying Science Test Items which Function Differentially for Females and Males.

Sudweeks, Richard R.; Tolman, Richard R. – 1990

The purpose of this study was to compare empirical and subjective procedures for identifying science test items which discriminate against males or females in a fifth grade population (n=926). Techniques such as the Mantel-Haenszel procedure enable test developers to use both a priori and ex post facto procedures to identify specific items that…

Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education, Females, Grade 5

Technology and Language Testing. A Collection of Papers from the Annual Colloquium on Language Testing Research (7th, Princeton, New Jersey, April 6-9, 1985).

Stansfield, Charles W., Ed. – 1986

This collection of essays on measurement theory and language testing includes: "Computerized Adaptive Testing: Implications for Language Test Developers" (Peter Tung); "The Promise and Threat of Computerized Adaptive Assessment of Reading Comprehension" (Michael Canale); "Computerized Rasch Analysis of Item Bias in ESL…

Descriptors: Chinese, Cloze Procedure, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Software