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Multiple True-False Items: A Comparison of Scoring Algorithms
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Lahner, Felicitas-Maria; Lörwald, Andrea Carolin; Bauer, Daniel; Nouns, Zineb Miriam; Krebs, René; Guttormsen, Sissel; Fischer, Martin R.; Huwendiek, Sören – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2018
Multiple true-false (MTF) items are a widely used supplement to the commonly used single-best answer (Type A) multiple choice format. However, an optimal scoring algorithm for MTF items has not yet been established, as existing studies yielded conflicting results. Therefore, this study analyzes two questions: What is the optimal scoring algorithm…
Descriptors: Scoring Formulas, Scoring Rubrics, Objective Tests, Multiple Choice Tests
Multiple Choice Items with Combinations of Correct Responses: A Further Look at the Type K Format.
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Albanese, Mark A. – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1982
Findings regarding formats and scoring formulas for multiple-choice test items with more than one correct response are presented. Strong cluing effects in the Type K format, increasing the correct score percentage and reducing test reliability, recommend using the Type X format. Alternative scoring methods are discussed. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Health Occupations, Multiple Choice Tests, Professional Education, Response Style (Tests)
Effect of Item Arrangement, Knowledge of Arrangement, and Test Anxiety on Two Scoring Methods.
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Plake, Barbara S.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Education, 1981
Number right and elimination scores were analyzed on a college level mathematics exam assembled from pretest data. Anxiety measures were administered along with the experimental forms to undergraduates. Results suggest that neither test scores nor attitudes are influenced by item order knowledge thereof, or anxiety level. (Author/GK)
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Difficulty Level, Higher Education, Multiple Choice Tests
Effect of Examinee Certainty on Probabilistic Test Scores and a Comparison of Scoring Methods for Probabilistic Responses.
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Suhadolnik, Debra; Weiss, David J. – 1983
The present study was an attempt to alleviate some of the difficulties inherent in multiple-choice items by having examinees respond to multiple-choice items in a probabilistic manner. Using this format, examinees are able to respond to each alternative and to provide indications of any partial knowledge they may possess concerning the item. The…
Descriptors: Confidence Testing, Multiple Choice Tests, Probability, Response Style (Tests)
Number Right and Elimination Score as a Function of Item Arrangement, Knowledge of Arrangement, and Test Anxiety.
Plake, Barbara S.; And Others – 1980
Number right and elimination scores were analyzed on a 48-item college level mathematics test that was assembled from pretest data in three forms by varying the item orderings: easy-hard, uniform, or random. Half of the forms contained information explaining the item arrangement and suggesting strategies for taking the test. Several anxiety…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Higher Education, Multiple Choice Tests, Quantitative Tests
Performance Implications of Corrective Testing.
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Arkin, Robert M.; Walts, Elizabeth A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1983
The effects of corrective testing and how such feedback might affect high- and low-test-anxious students differently are indicated. Subjects were 286 college students in three classes--one using mastery testing and two using multiple choice tests. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Feedback, Higher Education, Mastery Tests
Multiple Choice: A State of the Art Report
Wood, Robert – Evaluation in Education: International Progress, 1977
The author surveys literature and practice, primarily in Great Britain and the United States, about multiple-choice testing, comments on criticisms, and defends the state of the art. Varous item types, item writing, test instructions and scoring formulas, item analysis, and test construction are discussed. An extensive bibliography is appended.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Item Analysis, Multiple Choice Tests, Scoring Formulas