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Donlon, Thomas F. – 1979
Questions are raised about the time within a test administration period that may be available for review for those candidates who have time enough, or more than enough, to finish. The assumption is proposed that rate of work may be normally distributed. The rate of work for those who have finished a test cannot be determined from their answer…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, High Schools, Higher Education, Proctoring
Wainer, Howard – 1985
It is important to estimate the number of examinees who reached a test item, because item difficulty is defined by the number who answered correctly divided by the number who reached the item. A new method is presented and compared to the previously used definition of three categories of response to an item: (1) answered; (2) omitted--a…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Difficulty Level, Estimation (Mathematics), High Schools
Download full textKerstiens, Gene – 1986
This study investigated the effect of timed testing on developmental students' scores and developed data that might better reveal students' reading and testing behaviors. Three tests were administered to provide six variables, including the Cooperative English Test, Form 1A (Coop 1A); Cooperative English Test, Form 1B (Coop 1B); and Degrees of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs, Higher Education, Reading Comprehension
Immerman, Michael A. – 1980
To investigate the effect of time restraints on the diagnostic test scores of Native American students entering Bureau of Indian Affairs schools, two groups of students at Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, were given the Stanford Diagnostic Reading Test, (Blue Level), 1977 edition. The test scores…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indians, Comparative Analysis
Durost, Walter N.; Hodges, Richard B., Jr. – 1974
Data available from the Fall and Spring administration of the Stanford Achievement Test: Intermediate I: Form X and the Otis-Lennon Mental Ability Test for all Title I pupils in the State of New Hampshire plus a random sample for the entire state, made possible the item-by-item comparison of Fall and Spring performance on the same groups of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education
Reilly, Richard R.; Evans, Franklin R. – 1974
One of the many criticisms leveled at standardized testing is that the time limits commonly used require a speed component of performance which may act to the disadvantaged of certain culturally defined groups. Recent studies by the authors examined the question of differential time limits and group performance for standardized academic aptitude…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Aptitude Tests, College Students, Group Testing
