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Download full textIto, Kyoko; Sykes, Robert C. – 2000
This study investigated the practice of weighting a type of test item, such as constructed response, more than other types of items, such as selected response, to compute student scores for a mixed-item type of test. The study used data from statewide writing field tests in grades 3, 5, and 8 and considered two contexts, that in which a single…
Descriptors: Constructed Response, Elementary Education, Essay Tests, Test Construction
