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Easy and Informative: Using Confidence-Weighted True-False Items for Knowledge Tests in Psychology Courses
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Dutke, Stephan; Barenberg, Jonathan – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2015
We introduce a specific type of item for knowledge tests, confidence-weighted true-false (CTF) items, and review experiences of its application in psychology courses. A CTF item is a statement about the learning content to which students respond whether the statement is true or false, and they rate their confidence level. Previous studies using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Psychology, Objective Tests
Highly Confident but Wrong: Gender Differences and Similarities in Confidence Judgments.
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Lundeberg, Mary A.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1994
Gender differences in item-specific confidence judgments were studied for 70 male and 181 female college students. Gender differences in confidence were dependent on context and the domain being tested. Both men and women were overconfident, but men were especially overconfident when incorrect. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Confidence Testing, Context Effect, Difficulty Level
To Change or Not to Change: Investigating the Value of MCQ Answer Changing for Gulf Arab Students
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Al-Hamly, Mashael; Coombe, Christine – Language Testing, 2005
This study investigates whether the practice of answer changing on multiple-choice questions (MCQs) is beneficial to Gulf Arab students' overall test performance. The proficiency exam used in this study is the Michigan English Language Institute College English Test - Grammar, Cloze, Vocabulary, Reading (MELICET-GCVR), which was developed using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College English, Arabs, Multiple Choice Tests