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Download full textBlumberg, Phyllis; Felner, Joel – 1980
Using Guttman's facet design analysis, four parallel forms of a multiple-choice test were developed. A mapping sentence, logically representing the universe of content of a basic cardiology course, specified the facets of the course and the semantic structural units linking them. The facets were: cognitive processes, disease priority, specific…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Course Content, Higher Education, Item Analysis
Halpin, Glennelle; And Others – 1979
Forty-five graduate students in two educational psychology classes were randomly assigned to three groups for a classroom test on the course content. One group was asked to go to another room and then was privately excused from the test. The other two groups took tests with the same 32 items, but one group used a multiple-choice format and the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Difficulty Level, Higher Education, Knowledge Level
MOORE, J. WILLIAM, ED.; SMITH, WENDELL I., ED. – 1962
THIS IS A COMPILATION OF ARTICLES DEALING WITH PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION AND AUTO-INSTRUCTIONAL DEVICES (TEACHING-MACHINES). THE LITERATURE IS REVIEWED AND AN OVERVIEW OF THE FIELD IS PRESENTED. THE APPLICATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY AND LEARNING THEORY TO TEACHING MACHINES IS DISCUSSED, AND THE PROCEDURE AND RULES OF PROGRAMING METHOD. SAMPLES…
Descriptors: Conditioning, Educational Technology, Individual Differences, Learning Theories
Cronnell, Bruce – 1980
Experiences with competency testing at the elementary level in the area of English language are presented, as well as suggestions for improving the quality of competency tests. In order to modify curricula and requirements to meet the demands of assessment and to ensure sufficient student instruction, the following suggestions are made: (1)…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, English Instruction, Language Arts, Language Skills
Plake, Barbara S.; And Others – 1980
Number right and elimination scores were analyzed on a 48-item college level mathematics test that was assembled from pretest data in three forms by varying the item orderings: easy-hard, uniform, or random. Half of the forms contained information explaining the item arrangement and suggesting strategies for taking the test. Several anxiety…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Higher Education, Multiple Choice Tests, Quantitative Tests
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Office of Program Evaluation and Research. – 1980
This publication was developed as a useful tool for school personnel in interpreting California Assessment Program (CAP) test results. The skills measured by the Survey of Basic Skills: Grade 3 (an integral part of the CAP) are described. Rationale for test content specifications, methods of skill assessment, and activities conducted during the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 3, Multiple Choice Tests
Kelso, Genell – 1978
In order to determine if multiple choice spelling tests are as effective as handwritten tests, 265 college freshmen were tested on the same spelling words by traditional oral dictation and then by five-option multiple choice questions. Results were compared to examine the efficacy of multiple choice testing. Of a possible 20 points, the mean score…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Educational Research, English Instruction, Higher Education
Mercer, Maryann – 1977
In a 1977 review of the literature on test answer changing, Mueller and Wasser (EJ 163 236) cited 17 studies and concluded that students changing answers on objective tests gain more points than they lost by so doing. Higher scoring students tend to gain more than do the lower scoring students. Six additional studies not reported in the Mueller…
Descriptors: Guessing (Tests), Higher Education, Junior High Schools, Literature Reviews
Department of the Navy, Washington, DC. – 1975
This publication is the examination booklet used for a home study course in water treatment. This course is the advanced part of a series produced by the Department of the Navy. This publication is designed to be used in conjunction with a course textbook. Each of the four examinations contained in this document are referenced to a specific…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Environmental Technicians, Evaluation, Individualized Instruction
Diamond, James J.; Williams, David V. – 1975
Thirteen graduate students were asked to indicate for each of 24 multiple-choice items whether the item tested "recall of specific information," a "higher order skill," or "don't know." The students were also asked to state their general basis for judging the items. The 24 items had been previously classified according to Bloom's cognitive-skills…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Criterion Referenced Tests, Graduate Students
Friedman, Herbert L.; And Others – 1967
The studies reported here are a continuation of research into the comprehension of time-compressed speech by normal college students. In the Listening Aid Study II, an experiment was designed to retest the advantages of the precis as a listening aid when the precis expressed the overall meaning of a passage. Also, a new listening aid was…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Aural Learning, Educational Media, Independent Reading
Shuford, Emir H., Jr.; Messengill, H. Edward – 1969
A Multiple-choice test on leadership was administered to 98 officer candidates in residence at the officer training school, Lackland Air Force Base. Less than one hour was devoted to instructing the officer candidates on how to take a valid confidence test, and the normal time was then allowed for the students to respond to the 58 test items.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Critical Thinking, Information Utilization, Knowledge Level
Koehler, Roger A. – 1974
A potentially valuable measure of overconfidence on probabilistic multiple-choice tests was evaluated. The measure of overconfidence was based on probabilistic responses to nonsense items embedded in a vocabulary test. The test was administered under both confidence response and conventional choice response directions to 208 undergraduate…
Descriptors: Confidence Testing, Guessing (Tests), Measurement Techniques, Multiple Choice Tests
Pugh, Richard C.; Brunza, J. Jay – 1974
An examinee is required to express his confidence in the correctness of each choice of a multiple-choice item in a probabilistic test. For the responses to be valid indicators the confidence expressed in each choice should be determined by an examinees' knowledge. This study assessed the relationship of the certainty of examinees' responses to…
Descriptors: Behavior, Confidence Testing, Guessing (Tests), Individual Characteristics
Jacobs, Stanley S. – 1971
The study was an experimental investigation of the effects of item difficulty and subject ability on subjects answer-changing behaviors. Subjects were administered an achievement test composed of items at three levels of difficulty via slides, followed by a printed copy of the test. Analyses revealed no effects attributable to subject ability.…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Achievement Tests, Educational Experiments, Graduate Students
