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Direct linkRoger Young; Emily Courtney; Alexander Kah; Mariah Wilkerson; Yi-Hsin Chen – Teaching of Psychology, 2025
Background: Multiple-choice item (MCI) assessments are burdensome for instructors to develop. Artificial intelligence (AI, e.g., ChatGPT) can streamline the process without sacrificing quality. The quality of AI-generated MCIs and human experts is comparable. However, whether the quality of AI-generated MCIs is equally good across various domain-…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Multiple Choice Tests, Psychology, Textbooks
Download full textCraig Pournara; Lynn Bowie – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2023
Background: Poor mathematics performance in South Africa is well known. The COVID-19 pandemic was expected to exacerbate the situation. Aim: To investigate Grade 7 learners' mathematical knowledge at the end of primary school and to compare mathematical performance of Grade 7 and 8 learners in the context of the pandemic. Setting: Data were…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Knowledge Level, Grade 7, COVID-19
Peer reviewedStrang, Harold R. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1977
The effects of option familiarity, length, and technicality on guessing or multiple choice items were investigated in two experiments. Generally, these college undergraduates tended to favor familiar, non-technical, and longer options when guessing on multiple choice tests. (JKS)
Descriptors: Cues, Females, Guessing (Tests), Higher Education
Peer reviewedCostin, Frank – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1972
This study confirmed the practical benefits of three-choice items. (Author)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cues, Item Analysis, Multiple Choice Tests
Peer reviewedSchrock, Timothy J.; Mueller, Daniel J. – Journal of Educational Research, 1982
Three item-construction principles for multiple-choice tests were studied to determine how they affected test results for high school students: (1) use of incomplete sentence stem; (2) location of blank in the stem; and (3) presence of noncueing material. Differences in item construction had a slight effect on test results. (Authors/CJ)
Descriptors: Cues, High School Students, High Schools, Item Analysis
Kuntz, Patricia – 1982
The quality of mathematics multiple choice items and their susceptibility to test wiseness were examined. Test wiseness was defined as "a subject's capacity to utilize the characteristics and formats of the test and/or test taking situation to receive a high score." The study used results of the Graduate Record Examinations Aptitude Test (GRE) and…
Descriptors: Cues, Item Analysis, Multiple Choice Tests, Psychometrics
