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Liu, Ou Lydia; Bridgeman, Brent; Gu, Lixiong; Xu, Jun; Kong, Nan – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2015
Research on examinees' response changes on multiple-choice tests over the past 80 years has yielded some consistent findings, including that most examinees make score gains by changing answers. This study expands the research on response changes by focusing on a high-stakes admissions test--the Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning measures…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, High Stakes Tests, Graduate Study, Verbal Ability
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Morley, Mary; Bridgeman, Brent; Lawless, René – ETS Research Report Series, 2004
This study investigated the transfer of solution strategies between close variants of quantitative reasoning questions. Pre- and posttests were obtained from 406 college undergraduates, all of whom took the same posttest; pretests varied such that one group of participants saw close variants of one set of posttest items while other groups saw…
Descriptors: Test Items, Mathematics Tests, Problem Solving, Pretests Posttests
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Stricker, Lawrence J.; Wilder, Gita Z.; Bridgeman, Brent – International Journal of Testing, 2006
The aim of this study was to assess test takers' attitudes and beliefs about an admissions test used extensively in graduate schools of business in the United States, the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), and the relationships of these attitudes and beliefs to test performance. A set of attitude and belief items was administered by…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Test Wiseness, Gender Differences, Ethnic Groups