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Peer reviewedAbu-Sayf, F. K. – Educational Review, 1979
The purpose of this article is to discuss some recent developments in the scoring of multiple-choice items from two angles. The first consists of the recent developments in the test instructions of the conventional scoring procedures, and the second consists of a discussion of new scoring methods and formulas. (Author)
Descriptors: Confidence Testing, Guessing (Tests), Measurement Objectives, Multiple Choice Tests
Download full textEchternacht, Gary J.; And Others – 1971
This handbook presents instructions for implementing a confidence testing program in technical training situations, identification of possible areas of application, techniques for evaluating confidence information, advantages and disadvantages of confidence testing, time considerations, and problem areas. Complete instructions for "Pick-One" and…
Descriptors: Confidence Testing, Educational Diagnosis, Guessing (Tests), Measurement Techniques
Peer reviewedKansup, Wanlop; Hakstian, A. Ralph – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1975
Effects of logically weighting incorrect item options in conventional tests and different scoring functions with confidence tests on reliability and validity were examined. Ninth graders took conventionally administered Verbal and Mathematical Reasoning tests, scored conventionally and by a procedure assigning degree-of-correctness weights to…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Confidence Testing, Junior High School Students, Multiple Choice Tests
Donlon, Thomas F.; Fitzpatrick, Anne R. – 1978
On the basis of past research efforts to improve multiple-choice test information through differential weighting of responses to wrong answers (distractors), two statistical indices are developed. Each describes the properties of response distributions across the options of an item. Jaspen's polyserial generalization of the biserial correlation…
Descriptors: Confidence Testing, Difficulty Level, Guessing (Tests), High Schools
Echternacht, Gary – 1971
Confidence testing has been used in varying forms over the past 40 years as a method for increasing the amount of information available from objective test items. This paper traces the development of the procedure from Hevner's beginning method up to the various methods in use today and describes both the testing procedures and scoring methods…
Descriptors: Confidence Testing, Guessing (Tests), Individual Characteristics, Measurement Techniques
Pascale, Pietro J. – 1971
This brief review explains some alternate scoring procedures to the classical method of summing correct responses. The novel procedures attempt in some way to retrieve and use even the information in the wrong responses. (Author)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Oriented Programs, Confidence Testing, Educational Diagnosis
Rippey, Robert M. – 1971
Technical improvements, which may be made in the reliability and validity of tests through confidence scores, are discussed. However, studies indicate that subjects do not handle their confidence uniformly. (MS)
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Confidence Testing, Correlation, Difficulty Level
