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Direct linkRoger Young; Emily Courtney; Alexander Kah; Mariah Wilkerson; Yi-Hsin Chen – Teaching of Psychology, 2025
Background: Multiple-choice item (MCI) assessments are burdensome for instructors to develop. Artificial intelligence (AI, e.g., ChatGPT) can streamline the process without sacrificing quality. The quality of AI-generated MCIs and human experts is comparable. However, whether the quality of AI-generated MCIs is equally good across various domain-…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Multiple Choice Tests, Psychology, Textbooks
Sibulkin, Amy E.; Butler, J. S. – Teaching of Psychology, 2019
After explicit instruction on how to give possible bidirectional (two-way) causality explanations for a correlation, 240 students from eight sections of social psychology and research methods courses wrote "reverse causality" explanations on various test questions, creating a total of 882 answers. Averaging across multiple graded…
Descriptors: Correlation, Causal Models, Research Methodology, Social Psychology
Smajic, Adnan; Merritt, Stephanie; Banister, Christina; Blinebry, Amanda – Teaching of Psychology, 2014
Laboratory studies have established a negative relationship between the color red and academic performance. This research examined whether this effect would generalize to classroom performance and whether anxiety and negative affect might mediate the effect. In two studies, students taking classroom exams were randomly assigned an exam color. We…
Descriptors: Color, Anxiety, Performance, Tests
Peer reviewedGerow, Joshua R. – Teaching of Psychology, 1980
Discusses a study to evaluate how test design influences student performance in elementary psychology courses. Findings indicated that the order in which test items appeared on an exam was less significant with regard to student performance than the extent to which test items were well-written and contained some measure of content validity.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Difficulty Level, Higher Education, Psychology
Peer reviewedLaffitte, Rondeau G., Jr. – Teaching of Psychology, 1984
A study involving undergraduate college students enrolled in an introductory psychology course showed that test item arrangement by difficulty or by order of content presentation has no effect on total achievement test score. The data also fail to demonstrate any influence of test item order on student perception of test difficulty. (RM)
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Educational Research, Higher Education, Psychology
Peer reviewedScialfa, Charles; Legare, Connie; Wenger, Larry; Dingley, Louis – Teaching of Psychology, 2001
Analyzes multiple-choice questions provided in test banks for introductory psychology textbooks. Study 1 offered a consistent picture of the objective difficulty of multiple-choice tests for introductory psychology students, while both studies 1 and 2 indicated that test items taken from commercial test banks have poor psychometric properties.…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Educational Research, Higher Education, Introductory Courses
Peck, Andrew C.; Ali, Rahan S.; Matchock, Robert L.; Levine, Max E. – Teaching of Psychology, 2006
Conventional wisdom is that some topics in introductory psychology are more difficult for students than others. Such wisdom seems reasonable given mismatches between students' and instructors' expectations and variations in both instructor expertise and student motivation across topical areas. Five instructors pooled students' exam performance…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Psychology, Academic Achievement, Scores
