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Ute Mertens; Marlit A. Lindner – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2025
Background: Educational assessments increasingly shift towards computer-based formats. Many studies have explored how different types of automated feedback affect learning. However, few studies have investigated how digital performance feedback affects test takers' ratings of affective-motivational reactions during a testing session. Method: In…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Computer Assisted Testing, Automation, Feedback (Response)
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Stevenson, Claire E.; Heiser, Willem J.; Resing, Wilma C. M. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2016
Multiple-choice (MC) analogy items are often used in cognitive assessment. However, in dynamic testing, where the aim is to provide insight into potential for learning and the learning process, constructed-response (CR) items may be of benefit. This study investigated whether training with CR or MC items leads to differences in the strategy…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Multiple Choice Tests, Test Items, Cognitive Tests
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Ali, Syed Haris; Carr, Patrick A.; Ruit, Kenneth G. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2016
Plausible distractors are important for accurate measurement of knowledge via multiple-choice questions (MCQs). This study demonstrates the impact of higher distractor functioning on validity and reliability of scores obtained on MCQs. Freeresponse (FR) and MCQ versions of a neurohistology practice exam were given to four cohorts of Year 1 medical…
Descriptors: Scores, Multiple Choice Tests, Test Reliability, Test Validity
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Koçdar, Serpil; Karadag, Nejdet; Sahin, Murat Dogan – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2016
This is a descriptive study which intends to determine whether the difficulty and discrimination indices of the multiple-choice questions show differences according to cognitive levels of the Bloom's Taxonomy, which are used in the exams of the courses in a business administration bachelor's degree program offered through open and distance…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Difficulty Level, Distance Education, Open Education
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Papaieronymou, Irini – Athens Journal of Education, 2017
This paper presents the results of a study which examined the role of particular tasks implemented through two instructional methods on college students' achievement in probability. A mixed methods design that utilized a pre-test (with multiple-choice items) and post-test (with multiple-choice and open-ended items) in treatment and control groups…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, College Students, Academic Achievement, Probability
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Wilcox, Bethany R.; Pollock, Steven J. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2015
Standardized conceptual assessment represents a widely used tool for educational researchers interested in student learning within the standard undergraduate physics curriculum. For example, these assessments are often used to measure student learning across educational contexts and instructional strategies. However, to support the large-scale…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, College Science, Physics
Sadler, Philip M.; Sonnert, Gerhard – American Educator, 2016
In this study the authors set out to better understand the relationship between teacher knowledge of science and student learning. The authors administered identical multiple-choice assessment items both to teachers of middle school physical science and to their students throughout the school year. The authors found that teachers who have strong…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Middle School Students, Science Instruction, Science Achievement
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Stoffel, Heather; Raymond, Mark R.; Bucak, S. Deniz; Haist, Steven A. – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2014
Previous research on the impact of text and formatting changes on test-item performance has produced mixed results. This matter is important because it is generally acknowledged that "any" change to an item requires that it be recalibrated. The present study investigated the effects of seven classes of stylistic changes on item…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Items, Standardized Tests, Physicians
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Schaap, Lydia; Verkoeijen, Peter; Schmidt, Henk – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2014
This study investigated the effects of two different true-false questions on memory awareness and long-term retention of knowledge. Participants took four subsequent knowledge tests on curriculum learning material that they studied at different retention intervals prior to the start of this study (i.e. prior to the first test). At the first and…
Descriptors: Objective Tests, Test Items, Memory, Long Term Memory
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Funk, Steven C.; Dickson, K. Laurie – Teaching of Psychology, 2011
The authors experimentally investigated the effects of multiple-choice and short-answer format exam items on exam performance in a college classroom. They randomly assigned 50 students to take a 10-item short-answer pretest or posttest on two 50-item multiple-choice exams in an introduction to personality course. Students performed significantly…
Descriptors: Test Items, Test Format, Multiple Choice Tests, Validity
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Kibble, Jonathan D.; Johnson, Teresa – Advances in Physiology Education, 2011
The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether multiple-choice item difficulty could be predicted either by a subjective judgment by the question author or by applying a learning taxonomy to the items. Eight physiology faculty members teaching an upper-level undergraduate human physiology course consented to participate in the study. The…
Descriptors: Test Items, Hidden Curriculum, Reliability, Physiology
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Razi, Salim – Online Submission, 2012
This study presents the processes of developing and establishing reliability and validity of a reading test by administering an integrative approach as conventional reliability and validity measures superficially reveals the difficulty of a reading test. In this respect, analysing vocabulary frequency of the test is regarded as a more eligible way…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Reading Tests, Test Validity
DiBartolomeo, Matthew – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Multiple factors have influenced testing agencies to more carefully consider the manner and frequency in which pretest item data are collected and analyzed. One potentially promising development is judges' estimates of item difficulty. Accurate estimates of item difficulty may be used to reduce pretest samples sizes, supplement insufficient…
Descriptors: Test Items, Group Discussion, Athletics, Pretests Posttests
McCowan, Richard J. – Online Submission, 1999
Item writing is a major responsibility of trainers. Too often, qualified staff who prepare lessons carefully and teach conscientiously use inadequate tests that do not validly reflect the true level of trainee achievement. This monograph describes techniques for constructing multiple-choice items that measure student performance accurately. It…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Item Analysis, Test Construction, Test Items
Singh, Balwant; Gearhart, E. B. – 1980
This fifty item multiple choice test was developed by Portland Public Schools, Maine, to assess middle school students' understanding of the concepts presented in the "Responsibility" unit of the "Law in a Free Society" materials published by the California Bar Association. These materials deal with eight concepts for…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Citizenship Education, Difficulty Level, Grade 7
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