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Bildiren, Ahmet; Bikmaz Bilgen, Özge; Korkmaz, Mediha – SAGE Open, 2021
The aim of the present study is to develop a national non-verbal cognitive ability test in Turkey. Test items were developed during the first stage and applied as a pilot study on 3,073 children in the age interval of 4 to 13. The test was given its final form based on the values of item difficulty, item distinctiveness, item total score…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Nonverbal Tests, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Tests
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Hung, Yu-Chen; Chan, Yi-Chih – Deafness & Education International, 2020
Unlike their peers with typical hearing, reading and speech challenges observed among children with hearing loss may not only be caused by developmental issues but also hearing-related problems. Although conventional oral reading assessments are useful for identifying children at risk of reading difficulties, they do not help examiners identify…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Oral Reading, Reading Tests
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Greenlees, Jane; Logan, Tracy – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2014
This study investigated the performance and reasoning of 143 Australian students who completed mathematics tasks sourced from their national test. Specifically, this study examined changed student performance and reasoning on items where the graphic component was modified. The results of the study revealed significant performance differences…
Descriptors: Test Items, Test Construction, Mathematics Achievement, Thinking Skills
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Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed.; Mascia, Maria Lidia, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
These proceedings contain the papers of the 16th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2019), held during November 7-9, 2019, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) and co-organised by University Degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Cooperative Learning, Engineering Education, Critical Thinking
Shayer, Michael – 1980
The special case of the Piagetian model is discussed in relation to test theory. Problems connected with the construction and analysis of a test based on Piaget and Inhelder's The Child's Construction of Quantities are presented, and related to a method of representing the item discrimination which is consonant with Piagetian theory. Loevinger and…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Measurement, Developmental Stages, Difficulty Level
Green, Kathy E.; Kluever, Raymond C. – 1991
Item components that might contribute to the difficulty of items on the Raven Colored Progressive Matrices (CPM) and the Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM) were studied. Subjects providing responses to CPM items were 269 children aged 2 years 9 months to 11 years 8 months, most of whom were referred for testing as potentially gifted. A second…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Children, Comparative Testing, Difficulty Level