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Tollefson, Nona; Tripp, Alice – 1983
This study compared the item difficulty and item discrimination of three multiple choice item formats. The multiple choice formats studied were: a complex alternative (none of the above) as the correct answer; a complex alternative as a foil, and the one-correct answer format. One hundred four graduate students were randomly assigned to complete…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Difficulty Level, Graduate Students, Higher Education
Chissom, Brad; Chukabarah, Prince C. O. – 1985
The comparative effects of various sequences of test items were examined for over 900 graduate students enrolled in an educational research course at The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. experiment, which was conducted a total of four times using four separate tests, presented three different arrangements of 50 multiple-choice items: (1)…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Comparative Testing, Difficulty Level, Graduate Students
Tanner, David E. – 1986
A multiple choice achievement test was constructed in which both cognitive level and degree of abstractness were controlled. Subjects were 75 students from a major university in the Southwest. A group of 13 judges, also university students, classified the concepts for degree of abstractness. Results indicated that both cognitive level and degree…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Achievement Tests, Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Processes
