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Download full textLivingston, Samuel A. – 1987
The effect of increased writing or planning time on a test of basic college level writing ability was studied. The essay portion of the New Jersey College Basic Skills Placement Test was given to students in nine New Jersey public colleges and three New Jersey public high schools. Each student wrote two essays on two different topics. The first…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Difficulty Level, Essay Tests, High Schools
Peer reviewedPlake, Barbara S.; Melican, Gerald J. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1989
The impact of overall test length and difficulty on the expert judgments of item performance by the Nedelsky method were studied. Five university-level instructors predicting the performance of minimally competent candidates on a mathematics examination were fairly consistent in their assessments regardless of length or difficulty of the test.…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Estimation (Mathematics), Evaluators, Higher Education
