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Download full textVispoel, Walter P.; Twing, Jon S. – 1989
The measurement precision, efficiency, and validity of an adaptive test and four conventional listening tests designed to assess musical ability were compared. The conventional tests were the Seashore Tonal Memory Test and three tests (peaked, rectangular, and maximum discrimination) constructed from items in the 278-item adaptive test pool. The…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, College Students, Comparative Testing, High School Students
Trevisan, Michael S.; Sax, Gilbert – 1991
The purpose of this study was to compare the reliabilities of two-, three-, four-, and five-choice tests using an incremental option paradigm. Test forms were created incrementally, a method approximating actual test construction procedures. Participants were 154 12th-grade students from the Portland (Oregon) area. A 45-item test with two options…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Distractors (Tests), Estimation (Mathematics), Grade 12
Peer reviewedTrevisan, Michael S.; And Others – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1991
The reliability and validity of multiple-choice tests were computed as a function of the number of options per item and student ability for 435 parochial high school juniors, who were administered the Washington Pre-College Test Battery. Results suggest the efficacy of the three-option item. (SLD)
Descriptors: Ability, Comparative Testing, Distractors (Tests), Grade Point Average
Peer reviewedDowney, Ronald G. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 1979
This research attempted to interrelate several methods of producing option weights (i.e., Guttman internal and external weights and judges' weights) and examined their effects on reliability and on concurrent, predictive, and face validity. It was concluded that option weighting offered limited, if any, improvement over unit weighting. (Author/CTM)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Answer Keys, Comparative Testing, High Schools
Goldstein, Harvey; Wolf, Alison – 1986
Locally developed occupational tests were administered to 16- and 17-year-olds in a government-sponsored vocational education program in the United Kingdom over a six-month period in 1984. Job skills were tested in two occupational areas: use of a micrometer and invoice completion. Some performance tests were designed by researchers and some by…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Criterion Referenced Tests, Evaluation Criteria, Foreign Countries
Ross, G. Robert – 1977
A set of eight widely used inductive reasoning tests were investigated to determine whether or not they have different factorial structures. The eight inductive tests and three deductive tests, taken from the French Kit of Reference Tests for Cognitive Factors and the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal, were administered to 157 high school…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Tests, Comparative Testing, Deduction
Marsh, Herbert W. – 1992
The Stability of Self Scale has been used to infer the stability of self-concept from responses collected on a single occasion. Using the large, nationally representative Youth in Transition data for 10th grade boys in public high schools in 1966, Stability of Self responses were related to the variability in self-esteem responses collected in 4…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Correlation, Foreign Countries, Grade 10
