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Download full textAdams, Richard; And Others – 1993
The purpose of this study was to determine whether it is both possible and cost-effective to revise middle-difficulty Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) discrete items in order to produce items of higher or lower difficulty. The basic procedure was to select items of a given difficulty and, by revising the distractors, make them easier or more…
Descriptors: Analogy, College Entrance Examinations, Cost Effectiveness, Difficulty Level
Schaeffer, Gary A.; And Others – 1995
This report summarizes the results from two studies. The first assessed the comparability of scores derived from linear computer-based (CBT) and computer adaptive (CAT) versions of the three Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) General Test measures. A verbal CAT was taken by 1,507, a quantitative CAT by 1,354, and an analytical CAT by 995…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing, Equated Scores
Wild, Cheryl; Durso, Robin – 1979
This study investigates the effects of increasing the test time to reduce the speededness of the verbal and quantitative experimental sections of the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) Aptitude Test. In December 1976, at approximately 550 domestic test centers, 20- and 30-minute versions of a verbal experimental test and of a quantitative…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Higher Education, Quantitative Tests, Racial Bias
Morrow, Keith – 1983
The oral interaction examination used by Britain's Royal Society of Arts for testing communicative use of English as a foreign language is described. The underlying principles of the test, its structure, administration, issues of reliability and validity, and scoring are outlined. Three components of the test itself are included. One component is…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Clark, John L. D. – 1986
This handbook resulted from a project to develop a tape-based alternative test of language proficiency in less commonly taught languages. The objective was to produce a test that is modeled on and readily interpretable by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages/Interagency Language Roundtable (ACTFL/ILR) proficiency guidelines…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Chinese, Communicative Competence (Languages), Correlation
Huntley, Renee M.; And Others – 1989
This study investigated the effects of verbal factors on item performance in mathematics tests. Experimental tryout units were constructed that varied the verbal load of each of 21 mathematics test items. Each tryout unit was randomly assembled to include A, B and C versions of items so that no examinee took a unit of only one item format. Each…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, College Entrance Examinations, High School Students, High Schools
Brown, Annie – 1993
Issues in testing proficiency in languages for special purposes (LSP) are examined in the context of the development of an advanced oral test in Japanese for tour guides. The test, designed at an Australian university for use in the Australian tourism industry, was to be designed to evaluate both language proficiency and skills in appropriate…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Japanese
Liskin-Gasparro, Judith E. – 1983
A discussion of teaching and testing oral skills in a second language looks at issues in the testing of speaking ability in general, the effect that testing can have on teaching, and the kinds of communicative activities that can be built into a foreign language program with oral proficiency as a goal. The issues addressed include the differential…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Communicative Competence (Languages), Curriculum Development, Interviews
Wild, Cheryl L. – 1979
Three sections of the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) Aptitude Test were reviewed before the introduction of the restructured test in October, 1977: research on (1) the GRE-Verbal section; (2) the GRE-Quantitative section; and (3) a planned third section, measuring analytical thinking skills. Research in all three areas focused on test…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Aptitude Tests, Cognitive Processes, College Entrance Examinations
Lawrence, Ida; Rigol, Gretchen W.; Van Essen, Thomas; Jackson, Carol A. – College Entrance Examination Board, 2002
This paper describes the various ways in which the SAT has evolved since its introduction in 1926. Some of the modifications have involved changes in the types of questions used to measure verbal and mathematical skills. Other modifications focused on liberalizing time limits to ensure that speed of responding to questions has minimal effect on…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Achievement Tests, Test Construction, Test Bias
Varnhagen, Stanley; Calder, Peter W. – 1985
The Microcomputer Diagnostic Testing Project (MDTP) was designed to broaden the use of microcomputers in student testing, for elementary and secondary school use, and for a variety of test item formats. MDTP was designed to administer tests, to allow teachers to create or revise tests, to print out test forms when desired, to score tests, to…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Software, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education
Trevisan, Michael S.; Sax, Gilbert – 1990
Reliability and validity of multiple-choice examinations as a function of the number of options per item and of student ability were computed for 435 junior class parochial high school students in the tri-county area of Portland (Oregon). The verbal section of the Washington Pre-College Test Battery was used. The least discriminating options were…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Ability, College Bound Students, High Achievement
