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New South Wales Dept. of Education, Sydney (Australia). – 1981
As one in a series of test item collections developed by the Assessment and Evaluation Unit of the Directorate of Studies, items are made available to teachers for the construction of unit tests or term examinations or as a basis for class discussion. Each collection was reviewed for content validity and reliability. The test items meet syllabus…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Item Banks, Multiple Choice Tests, Physics
Peer reviewedWard, Murray – Mathematics in School, 1974
Discussion of an item analysis on 40 questions given to 10-year-olds, and presented in a previous issue, is completed. In general, teachers' expectaions of the most important problems and student performance agreed. Several questions on decimals, area, and volume proved most difficult. Limitations of the study are noted. (LS)
Descriptors: Achievement, Basic Skills, Curriculum, Elementary School Mathematics
Peer reviewedDiamond, James J. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1975
Investigates the reliability and validity of scores yielded from a new scoring formula. (Author/DEP)
Descriptors: Guessing (Tests), Multiple Choice Tests, Objective Tests, Scoring
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: Consumer Education, Foreign Countries, Home Economics, Home Management
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, Labor Relations
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: Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Item Banks, Multiple Choice Tests
Marlin, Carol A.; And Others – 1981
The effects of distinctive background settings on children's recognition memory for subjects and objects of related sentences was examined. As a follow-up to a study by Levin, Ghatala, and Truman (1979), the effects of presenting distinctive background contexts in sentences and multiple-choice tests were separated from the effects of providing…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 3, Grade 4, Multiple Choice Tests
Schmitt, Alicia P.; Crocker, Linda – 1981
The effectiveness of a strategy for improving performance on multiple choice items for examinees with different levels of test anxiety was assessed. Undergraduate measurement students responded to the Mandler-Sarason Test Anxiety Scale and to an objective test covering course content. Results indicated that, for most examinees, generation of an…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Higher Education, Multiple Choice Tests, Response Style (Tests)
Australian Council for Educational Research, Hawthorn. – 1978
After vigorous review, editing, and trial testing, this item bank was compiled to help secondary school teachers construct objective tests in the social sciences. Anthropology, economics, ethnic and cultural studies, geography, history, legal studies, politics, and sociology are among the topics represented. The bank consists of multiple choice…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Item Banks, Multiple Choice Tests
Download full textWeiten, Wayne – 1979
Two different formats for multiple-choice test items were compared in an experimental test given in a college class in introductory psychology. In one format, a question or incomplete statement was followed by four answers or completions, only one of which was correct. In the other format, the double multiple-choice version, the same questions…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Higher Education, Item Analysis, Multiple Choice Tests
Mersand, Joseph – 1980
This booklet offers English teachers a summary of the literature on test development and practical suggestions for test writing. The issues addressed include (1) honesty in testing, (2) understanding the place of testing, (3) characteristics of good testing, (4) preparing a classroom test, (5) what diagnostic tests reveal, (6) essay questions, and…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, English Instruction, Essay Tests, Higher Education
MOSS, MARGARET H. – 1967
THE TEST OF BASIC INFORMATION (TOBI) IS A 54-ITEM, MULTIPLE-CHOICE PICTURE TEST DEVELOPED TO MEASURE PREACADEMIC, SCHOOL-RELEVANT KNOWLEDGE. IT CAN BE USED TO ASSESS PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS BY GIVING IT AS A PRE- AND POSTTEST. IT CAN BE ADMINISTERED INDIVIDUALLY, OR TO GROUPS OF UP TO 15 IF THERE IS 1 ADULT FOR 3 OR 4 CHILDREN, AND TAKES FROM 15 TO…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Disadvantaged, Early Experience, Educational Improvement
Scheetz, James P.; vonFraunhofer, J. Anthony – 1980
Subkoviak suggested a technique for estimating both group reliability and the reliability associated with assigning a given individual to a mastery or non-mastery category based on a single test administration. Two assumptions underlie this model. First, it is assumed that had successive test administrations occurred, scores for each individual…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Cutting Scores, Error of Measurement, Higher Education
Rand, Earl – 1978
A project is described that was undertaken to investigate: (1) how long a cloze test has to be to achieve optimum reliability without wasting anyone's time; and (2) how cloze tests should be scored in order to obtain maximum reliability. The literature recommended 50 deletions in order to provide for an adequate sample of examinee's abilities; it…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Language Research
Samejima, Fumiko – 1980
Research related to the multiple choice test item is reported, as it is conducted by educational technologists in Japan. Sato's number of hypothetical equivalent alternatives is introduced. The based idea behind this index is that the expected uncertainty of the m events, or alternatives, be large and the number of hypothetical, equivalent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Latent Trait Theory, Mathematical Models, Multiple Choice Tests
