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Download full textPhelan, Julia; Kang, Taehoon; Niemi, David N.; Vendlinski, Terry; Choi, Kilchan – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2009
While research suggests that formative assessment can be a powerful tool to support teaching and learning, efforts to jump on the formative assessment bandwagon have been more widespread than those to assure the technical quality of the assessments. This report covers initial analyses of data bearing on the quality of formative assessments in…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Test Format, Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation
Wainer, Howard; And Others – 1990
The initial development of a testlet-based algebra test was previously reported (Wainer and Lewis, 1990). This account provides the details of this excursion into the use of hierarchical testlets and validity-based scoring. A pretest of two 15-item hierarchical testlets was carried out in which examinees' performance on a 4-item subset of each…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Algebra, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing
Peer reviewedBirenbaum, Menucha; And Others – Applied Psychological Measurement, 1992
The effect of multiple-choice (MC) or open-ended (OE) response format on diagnostic assessment of algebra test performance was investigated with 231 eighth and ninth graders in Tel Aviv (Israel) using bug or rule space analysis. Both analyses indicated closer similarity between parallel OE subsets than between stem-equivalent OE and MC subsets.…
Descriptors: Algebra, Comparative Testing, Educational Assessment, Educational Diagnosis
