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Download full textLiu, Jinghua; Zu, Jiyun; Curley, Edward; Carey, Jill – ETS Research Report Series, 2014
The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of discrete anchor items versus passage-based anchor items on observed score equating using empirical data.This study compares an "SAT"® critical reading anchor that contains more discrete items proportionally, compared to the total tests to be equated, to another anchor that…
Descriptors: Equated Scores, Test Items, College Entrance Examinations, Comparative Analysis
Foy, Pierre, Ed.; Arora, Alka, Ed.; Stanco, Gabrielle M., Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2013
The TIMSS 2011 International Database includes data for all questionnaires administered as part of the TIMSS 2011 assessment. This supplement contains the international version of the TIMSS 2011 background questionnaires and curriculum questionnaires in the following 10 sections: (1) Fourth Grade Student Questionnaire; (2) Fourth Grade Home…
Descriptors: Background, Questionnaires, Test Items, Grade 4
Direct linkSchulz, Wolfram; Fraillon, Julian – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2011
When comparing data derived from tests or questionnaires in cross-national studies, researchers commonly assume measurement invariance in their underlying scaling models. However, different cultural contexts, languages, and curricula can have powerful effects on how students respond in different countries. This article illustrates how the…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, International Studies, Item Response Theory, International Education
Frisbie, David A. – 1981
The relative difficulty ratio (RDR) is used as a method of representing test difficulty. The RDR is the ratio of a test mean to the ideal mean, the point midway between the perfect score and the mean chance score for the test. The RDR tranformation is a linear scale conversion method but not a linear equating method in the classical sense. The…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Difficulty Level, Evaluation Methods, Raw Scores
Dowd, Steven B. – 1992
An alternative to multiple-choice (MC) testing is suggested as it pertains to the field of radiologic technology education. General principles for writing MC questions are given and contrasted with a new type of MC question, the alternate-choice (AC) question, in which the answer choices are embedded in the question in a short form that resembles…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Difficulty Level, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Peer reviewedDorans, Neil J.; And Others – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1992
The standardization approach to comprehensive differential item functioning is described and contrasted with the log-linear approach to differential distractor functioning and the item-response-theory-based approach to differential alternative functioning. Data from an edition of the Scholastic Aptitude Test illustrate application of the approach…
Descriptors: Black Students, College Entrance Examinations, Comparative Testing, Distractors (Tests)
