Use of latent class models to examine strategies that examinees (92 college students) use for a specific task is illustrated, via a multiple-choice test of spatial ability. Under an answer-until-correct scoring procedure, models representing an improvement over simplistic random guessing are proposed. (SLD)

Three experiments were conducted with 91 male and 91 female university students to assess sex differences in performance on speeded matching tests and theory on same-different judgments. Results are interpreted via the dual-process hypothesis of same-difference judgments with sex differences explained in terms of serial comparison processes rather…

Two studies with 139 male and 149 female undergraduate students and 79 female college students, respectively, assessed the development and validation of the Need for Cognition (NFC) Scale, which has 45 true/false items. Three subscales (Cognitive Persistence, Cognitive Confidence, and Cognitive Complexity) were identified. Some results concerning…

Data analysis of test scores from 278 undergraduates on three untimed course-based objective examinations yielded no linear or curvilinear relationships between completion speed and performance on individual tests or between average completion speed on three tests and total score. Results suggest that completion speed is unrelated to performance.…

Three types of test were compared: a completion test, a matching test, and a multiple-choice test. The completion test was more reliable than the matching test, and the matching test was more reliable than the multiple-choice test. (Author/BW)

A series of workshops sponsored by the All India Association for Christian Higher Education, in which 170 teachers from 45 colleges participated, revealed that creative and often ingenious uses of evaluation methods are being used in India today. Some of the ways that teachers are using objective tests to improve their teaching are discussed. (LBH)

The additive and response patterns scoring methods within and between multiple true-false (MTF) items were examined using data for 5,000 students for each of 2 years from the mathematics portion of the national college entrance examination in Taiwan. For additive scoring at item level, response to each option was scored dichotomously and added up…

Twenty true-false questions are provided in this environmental health quiz which is designed to test knowledge about flies and mosquitoes as vectors of communicable diseases. (JR)

An address to the ADE in New York, 26 December 1972. (RB)

Results suggest that: understanding can be defined in terms of information stored; and traditional learning concepts and measures are inappropriate for investigating the important effects involved in reading and auding'' prose. (Author/CB)

Students in 14 teacher colleges in Great Britian were given tests to assess their knowledge of the reproductive system, genetics, and venereal diseases. Test results indicate the necessity for intensive health education courses in Colleges of Education. (DS)

Two problems are investigated: (1) the fact that statistics from pretests sometimes vary widely from those for the actual test; (2) whether or not a correction factor should be applied for guessing. (DF)

Tests which the foreign language competence of the learner are the chief focus of the discussion, and the following aspects of such tests are discussed: purpose level, type, selection, form, gradation, order, number of items, administration of test, correction, and validation. (FB)

The grouping procedure for objective type examinations described in this paper can be a helpful tool in making examinations learning experiences for students. The technique provides instructors with specific information for planning remedial programs and helps them evaluate the curriculum and their teaching. (Author)