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Download full textGarvin, Alfred D.; Ralston, Nancy C. – 1970
Confidence Weighting (CW), after Ebel, and Multiple Responding (MR), after Coombs, are compared empirically to determine which improved test reliability more in the case of a course pretest derived from the final examination. It was hypothesized that MR, which purportedly measures partial knowledge, would be more effective than CW, which measures…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Testing, Multiple Choice Tests, Objective Tests
O'Neal, Marcia R.; And Others – 1986
This study examined and refined a mathematics skills instrument used to predict success in an introductory statistics course and to measure improvement in mathematics skills. Alternate forms of a 28-item true-false test were administered as a pretest and posttest to 18 undergraduate and 19 graduate students enrolled in introductory educational…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Grade Prediction, Graduate Students, Higher Education
