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Direct linkKacprzyk, Joanna; Parsons, Martin; Maguire, Patricia B.; Stewart, Gavin S. – Irish Educational Studies, 2019
The optimum assessment structure measures student knowledge accurately and without bias. In this study, the performance of the first-year undergraduate science students from the University College Dublin was evaluated to test the gender equality of the assessment structure in place. Results of male and female students taking three life science…
Descriptors: Science Tests, Gender Bias, College Freshmen, Foreign Countries
Zaidi, Nikki B.; Hwang, Charles; Scott, Sara; Stallard, Stefanie; Purkiss, Joel; Hortsch, Michael – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2017
Bloom's taxonomy was adopted to create a subject-specific scoring tool for histology multiple-choice questions (MCQs). This Bloom's Taxonomy Histology Tool (BTHT) was used to analyze teacher- and student-generated quiz and examination questions from a graduate level histology course. Multiple-choice questions using histological images were…
Descriptors: Taxonomy, Anatomy, Graduate Students, Scoring Formulas
Peer reviewedRippey, Robert M.; Smith, Susan – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1979
Medical and dental students were administered two short confidence-scored tests on cellular and molecular biology. Increases in test reliability and predictive validity were found when test scores were adjusted for realism, but were not statistically significant. (Author/MH)
Descriptors: Confidence Testing, Dental Schools, Higher Education, Medical Students
Download full textAngoff, William H.; Schrader, William B. – 1981
The purpose of this study was to determine whether it would be possible to equate rights-scored to formula-scored tests without causing a discontinuity in the meaning of the score scale. Several other subsidiary studies--of the characteristics of the two scoring methods, of nonresponse and guessing, and of reliability and parallelism--were also…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, College Entrance Examinations, Equated Scores, Guessing (Tests)
