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Peer reviewedBaskin, David – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1975
Traditional test scoring does not allow the examination of differences among subjects obtaining identical raw scores on the same test. A configuration scoring paradigm for identical raw scores, which provides for such comparisons, is developed and illustrated. (Author)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Differences, Mathematical Models, Multiple Choice Tests
Choppin, Bruce H.; Purves, Alan C. – Res Teach Engl, 1969
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Essay Tests, Literary Criticism, Multiple Choice Tests
Samejima, Fumiko – 1981
In defense of retaining the "latent trait theory" term, instead of replacing it with "item response theory" as some recent research would have it, the following objectives are outlined: (1) investigation of theory and method for estimating the operating characteristics of discrete item responses using a minimum number of…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Factor Analysis, Latent Trait Theory
Smith, Jan, Ed. – 1980
As one in a series of test item collections developed by the Assessment and Evaluation Unit of the Directorate of Studies, items of value from past tests are made available to teachers for the construction of unit tests, term examinations or as a basis for class discussion. Each collection is reviewed for content validity and reliability. The test…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Home Economics, Item Banks, Multiple Choice Tests
Meeve, Brian, Ed. – 1978
As one in a series of test item collections developed by the Assessment and Evaluation Unit of the Directorate of Studies, items of value from past tests are made available to teachers for the construction of unit tests, term examinations or as a basis for class discussion. Each collection was reviewed for content validity and reliability. The…
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Foreign Countries, Item Banks, Money Management
Campbell, Thomas; And Others – 1980
As one in a series of test item collections developed by the Assessment and Evaluation Unit of the Directorate of Studies, items of value from past tests are made available to teachers for the construction of unit tests, term examinations or as a basis for class discussion. Each collection was reviewed for content validity and reliability. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Indonesian, Item Banks
Kouimanos, John, Ed. – 1979
As one in a series of test item collections developed by the Assessment and Evaluation Unit of the Directorate of Studies, items of value from past tests are made available to teachers for the construction of unit tests, term examinations or as a basis for class discussion. Each collection was reviewed for content validity and reliability. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography, Industry, Item Banks
Kouimanos, John, Ed. – 1980
As one in a series of test item collections developed by the Assessment and Evaluation Unit of the Directorate of Studies, items of value from past tests are made available to teachers for the construction of unit tests, term examinations or as a basis for class discussion. Each collection was reviewed for content validity and reliability. The…
Descriptors: Educational Certificates, Foreign Countries, Geography, Item Banks
Download full textMcArthur, David L. – 1981
Item bias, when present in a multiple-choice test, can be detected by appropriate analyses of the persons x items scoring matrix. Five related schemes for the statistical analysis of bias were applied to a widely used, primary skills multiple-choice test which was administered in either its English- or Spanish-language version at each of the two…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Multiple Choice Tests, Spanish
Singh, Balwant; Lambert, Leroy – 1980
This fifty-item test is intended for the 'Responsibility' unit of the 'Law in a Free Society' materials published by the California Bar Association. The test was administered as a pre- and post-test to more than 600 grade 11 students. The pre-test data for all students were item-analyzed and the results are made available along with a table of…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Grade 11, High Schools, Item Analysis
Strazicich, Mirko, Ed. – 1981
This document contains objective tests for each lesson in the Meatcutting Workbook, Part I (see note), which is designed for apprenticeship programs in meatcutting in California. Each of the 36 tests contains from 10 to 45 multiple-choice items. The tests are grouped according to the eight units of the workbook: the apprentice meatcutter; applied…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Food Processing Occupations, Job Skills, Learning Modules
Ebel, Robert L. – 1981
An alternate-choice test item is a simple declarative sentence, one portion of which is given with two different wordings. For example, "Foundations like Ford and Carnegie tend to be (1) eager (2) hesitant to support innovative solutions to educational problems." The examinee's task is to choose the alternative that makes the sentence…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Difficulty Level, Guessing (Tests), Multiple Choice Tests
FAULKNER, JAMES C.
A BRIEF HISTORY IS GIVEN OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF OBJECTIVE FOREIGN LANGUAGE TESTS FOR HIGH SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES, FROM 1916 TO THE PRESENT. THERE IS A DESCRIPTION OF THE EARLY EFFORTS TO CONSTRUCT OBJECTIVE TESTS AND THE IMPERFECTIONS OF SOME OF THESE EXAMINATIONS. LATER TESTS, PARTICULARLY THOSE IN CURRENT USE, ARE DESCRIBED IN DETAIL, WITH EMPHASIS…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Bibliographies, Language Tests, Languages
Green, Kathy; Sax, Gilbert – 1981
Achievement test reliability as a function of ability was determined for multiple sections of a large university French class (n=193). A 5-option multiple-choice examination was constructed, least attractive distractors were eliminated based on the instructor's judgment, and the resulting three forms of the examination (i.e. 3-, 4-, or 5-choice…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Achievement Tests, French, Higher Education
HETTICK, VERGIL; TURNER, GEORGE C. – 1967
THIS STUDY PROVIDES A PORTFOLIO OF SEVERAL THOUSAND FIELD-TESTED MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST ITEMS COORDINATED WITH THE CHAPTERS OF THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES CURRICULUM STUDY (BSCS) YELLOW VERSION TEXTBOOK. THE ITEMS WERE DEVELOPED BY A TEAM OF HIGH SCHOOL BIOLOGY TEACHERS AND WERE EVALUATED UNDER CLASSROOM CONDITIONS WITH GRADE 10 STUDENTS. A…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Biology, Evaluation, Multiple Choice Tests
