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Methods and Materials for Geography Education Improvement through Innovative, Machine-Scored Assessment.

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Hyers, Albert D.; Anderson, Paul S. – 1991

Using matched pairs of geography questions, a new testing method for machine-scored fill-in-the-blank, multiple-digit testing (MDT) questions was compared to the traditional multiple-choice (MC) style. Data were from 118 matched or parallel test items for 4 tests from 764 college students of geography. The new method produced superior results when…

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