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Download full textAl-zboon, Habis Saad; Alrekebat, Amjad Farhan – International Journal of Higher Education, 2021
This study aims at identifying the effect of multiple-choice test items' difficulty degree on the reliability coefficient and the standard error of measurement depending on the item response theory IRT. To achieve the objectives of the study, (WinGen3) software was used to generate the IRT parameters (difficulty, discrimination, guessing) for four…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Test Items, Difficulty Level, Error of Measurement
Direct linkLions, Séverin; Dartnell, Pablo; Toledo, Gabriela; Godoy, María Inés; Córdova, Nora; Jiménez, Daniela; Lemarié, Julie – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2023
Even though the impact of the position of response options on answers to multiple-choice items has been investigated for decades, it remains debated. Research on this topic is inconclusive, perhaps because too few studies have obtained experimental data from large-sized samples in a real-world context and have manipulated the position of both…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Test Items, Item Analysis, Responses
Han, Kyung T. – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2012
For several decades, the "three-parameter logistic model" (3PLM) has been the dominant choice for practitioners in the field of educational measurement for modeling examinees' response data from multiple-choice (MC) items. Past studies, however, have pointed out that the c-parameter of 3PLM should not be interpreted as a guessing…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Models, Multiple Choice Tests, Guessing (Tests)
Irvin, P. Shawn; Alonzo, Julie; Lai, Cheng-Fei; Park, Bitnara Jasmine; Tindal, Gerald – Behavioral Research and Teaching, 2012
In this technical report, we present the results of a reliability study of the seventh-grade multiple choice reading comprehension measures available on the easyCBM learning system conducted in the spring of 2011. Analyses include split-half reliability, alternate form reliability, person and item reliability as derived from Rasch analysis,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Testing Programs, Statistical Analysis, Grade 7
Park, Bitnara Jasmine; Alonzo, Julie; Tindal, Gerald – Behavioral Research and Teaching, 2011
This technical report describes the process of development and piloting of reading comprehension measures that are appropriate for seventh-grade students as part of an online progress screening and monitoring assessment system, http://easycbm.com. Each measure consists of an original fictional story of approximately 1,600 to 1,900 words with 20…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Grade 7, Test Construction
Alonzo, Julie; Liu, Kimy; Tindal, Gerald – Behavioral Research and Teaching, 2008
This technical report describes the development of reading comprehension assessments designed for use as progress monitoring measures appropriate for 2nd Grade students. The creation, piloting, and technical adequacy of the measures are presented. The following are appended: (1) Item Specifications for MC [Multiple Choice] Comprehension - Passage…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Grade 2, Elementary School Students
Alonzo, Julie; Tindal, Gerald – Behavioral Research and Teaching, 2008
This technical report describes the development and piloting of reading comprehension measures developed for use by fifth-grade students as part of an online progress monitoring assessment system, http://easycbm.com. Each comprehension measure is comprised of an original work of narrative fiction approximately 1500 words in length followed by 20…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Grade 5, Multiple Choice Tests
Peer reviewedStraton, Ralph G.; Catts, Ralph M. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1980
Multiple-choice tests composed entirely of two-, three-, or four-choice items were investigated. Results indicated that number of alternatives per item was inversely related to item difficulty, but directly related to item discrimination. Reliability and standard error of measurement of three-choice item tests was equivalent or superior.…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Error of Measurement, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Alonzo, Julie; Liu, Kimy; Tindal, Gerald – Behavioral Research and Teaching, 2007
In this technical report, the authors describe the development and piloting of reading comprehension measures as part of a comprehensive progress monitoring literacy assessment system developed in 2006 for use with students in Kindergarten through fifth grade. They begin with a brief overview of the two conceptual frameworks underlying the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Emergent Literacy, Test Construction, Literacy Education
Livingston, Samuel A. – 1986
This paper deals with test fairness regarding a test consisting of two parts: (1) a "common" section, taken by all students; and (2) a "variable" section, in which some students may answer a different set of questions from other students. For example, a test taken by several thousand students each year contains a common multiple-choice portion and…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Error of Measurement, Essay Tests, Mathematical Models
Peer reviewedIsrael, Glenn D.; Taylor, C. L. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1990
Mail questionnaire items that are susceptible to order effects were examined using data from 168 questionnaires in a Florida Cooperative Extension Service evaluation. Order effects were found for multiple-response and attributive questions but not for single-response items. Order also interacted with question complexity, social desirability, and…
Descriptors: Adult Farmer Education, Difficulty Level, Educational Assessment, Error of Measurement
Roid, Gale; Haladyna, Tom – 1978
The technology of transforming sentences from prose instruction into test questions was examined by comparing two methods of selecting sentences (keyword vs. rare singleton), two types of question words (nouns vs. adjectives), and two foil construction methods (writer's choice vs. algorithmic). Four item writers created items using each…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis, Criterion Referenced Tests
