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Improving Students' Capacity to Show Their Knowledge, Understanding and Skills in Exams by Using Combined Question and Answer Papers
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Crisp, Victoria – Research Papers in Education, 2008
This research set out to compare the quality, length and nature of (1) exam responses in combined question and answer booklets, with (2) responses in separate answer booklets in order to inform choices about response format. Combined booklets are thought to support candidates by giving more information on what is expected of them. Anecdotal…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, High School Students, Test Format, Test Construction
Assessing Pupils' Skills in Experimentation
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Hammann, Marcus; Phan, Thi Thanh Hoi; Ehmer, Maike; Grimm, Tobias – Journal of Biological Education, 2008
This study is concerned with different forms of assessment of pupils' skills in experimentation. The findings of three studies are reported. Study 1 investigates whether it is possible to develop reliable multiple-choice tests for the skills of forming hypotheses, designing experiments and analysing experimental data. Study 2 compares scores from…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Experiments, Science Process Skills, Skill Analysis
A Comparison of Two Methods for Structuring Performance Domains.
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Schaefer, Lyn; And Others – Applied Measurement in Education, 1992
Studied methods for structuring a performance domain for a certification test in emergency nursing based on task frequency ratings from 659 emergency nurses or task similarity ratings from 21 experts. A 125-job analysis survey was used. Similarity judgment results are more easily interpreted and adequately modeled by multivariate analysis. (SLD)
Descriptors: Certification, Comparative Testing, Job Analysis, Licensing Examinations (Professions)
Problematic Responses to Reading Performance Assessment Tasks: Sources and Implications.
Goldberg, Gail Lynn; Kapinus, Barbara – 1992
The Maryland School Performance Assessment Program (MSPAP) is a relatively new, statewide performance assessment of students in grades 3, 5, and 8. When first administered in May of 1991, the MSPAP included a battery of performance assessment tasks designed to generate written or drawn responses to reading texts. This study evaluated selected…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Evaluators
Effect of Position-within-Sequence on Case Performance in a Multiple-Stations Examination Using Standardized-Patient Cases.
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Colliver, Jerry A.; And Others – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1991
A study was conducted to assess the effect of station position in a multiple-stations performance-based examination administered to 127 senior medical students. There was no evidence for a sequence effect on student performance, with no improvement on scores awarded for standardized cases across successive cases in the examination. (SLD)
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Comparative Testing, Higher Education, Licensing Examinations (Professions)
Performance Assessment: An International Experiment.
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Semple, Brian McLean – 1992
The second International Assessment of Educational Progress focused on the mathematics and science achievement of 13-year-olds. Performance assessments were used as part of the overall assessment in four countries (England, Scotland, Soviet Union, and Taiwan) and five Canadian provinces. The performance assessment approach drew heavily on the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Comparative Testing, Educational Assessment