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Peer reviewedChastain, Kenneth D. – TESOL Quarterly, 1979
This article suggests criteria for evaluating listening comprehension tests. The weaknesses of typical test items are discussed and suggestions for new types of items are given. (CFM)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Evaluation Criteria, Item Analysis, Language Instruction
Peer reviewedWhitley, Theodore W. – Nursing Outlook, 1979
Gives examples of major sources of unreliability in multiple choice items in health professions classroom achievement tests (clues to response combinations, mutually exclusive alternatives, implausible distractors) and offers some suggestions for eliminating them when writing such tests. (MF)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Allied Health Occupations Education, Guessing (Tests), Item Analysis
