The conventionally used answer-sheet grid was found to be optimal. (Author/IRT)

A rational approach to standard transformed scores which always results in the numerical to letter grade correspondence for any chosen hypothetical grade distribution model is developed. (Author/LMO)

This article identifies the applications of microcomputers to assist teachers in designing, constructing, administering and scoring teacher-made tests that address the needs of learning disabled students. Guidelines for modifying presentation and response modes, facilitating motivation, and scoring tests are described along with cautions in using…

Concept map structure, testing, and scoring methods are discussed and a new scoring methodology is introduced using the breadth and depth of individual concept maps. The scoring method proposed here provides advantages of grading "on a curve" such as the ability to estimate and compare the complexity of different concept maps, the ability to…

An Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is an assessment approach employed in medical education, in which residents rotate through multiple stations of standardized clinical tasks to evaluate their clinical competence. Because items used to evaluate residents' performance in each OSCE station are linked to the same task and are rated…

The research described in this paper shows the use of lexical semantic techniques for automated scoring of short-answer and essay responses from performance-based test items. Researchers used lexical semantic techniques in order to identify the meaningful content of free-text responses for small data sets. One data set involved 172 training…

In a situation where cheating increases, the students most apt to become cheaters are those seated adjacent to identified cheaters. In all cases, cheaters tend to voluntarily seat themselves adjacent to one another rather than seating themselves adjacent to noncheaters. The voluntary isolation appears to persist even as cheating increases or…

Thirty-one clinical psychologists scored Comprehension, Similarities, and Vocabulary subtest items common to the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Revised (WISC-R). The results on interrater scoring agreement suggest that the scoring of these subtests may be less subjective than…

The method of scoring is used to obtain maximum likelihood estimates of the parameters in White and Clark's (EJ 075 122) learning hierarchy validation model. From the proportion of the population possessing only the superordinate skill in a pair of hierarchical skills, and its variance, the hypothesis of inclusion is tested. (Author/CTM)

This paper presents a scoring procedure for sex-role orientation reflecting how similar an individual is to androgynous, undifferentiated, masculine, and feminine sex-role types. The profile scores are reasonably reliable, consistent with a widely used typological scoring procedure, and permit finer comparisons between individuals with different…

A specified minimum performance level can be translated into a minimum passing score for the written test by measuring the performance of students whose written test scores are near the desired cutoff score. Stochastic approximation methods accomplish this purpose. The up-and-down method and the Robbins-Monro process are compared. (Author/RL)