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Direct linkOliveri, Maria Elena; Lawless, Rene; Robin, Frederic; Bridgeman, Brent – Applied Measurement in Education, 2018
We analyzed a pool of items from an admissions test for differential item functioning (DIF) for groups based on age, socioeconomic status, citizenship, or English language status using Mantel-Haenszel and item response theory. DIF items were systematically examined to identify its possible sources by item type, content, and wording. DIF was…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Comparative Analysis, Item Banks, Item Response Theory
Zimmermann, Judith; von Davier, Alina; Heinimann, Hans Rudolf – International Journal of Educational Management, 2017
Purpose: Graduate admission has become a critical process for quality assurance in tertiary education. Hitherto, most research has investigated the validity of admissions instruments. However, surprisingly little work has been conducted on the overall organization of admission, which often remains "informal, ad hoc, and lacking in…
Descriptors: College Admission, Decision Making, Validity, Admission Criteria
Download full textBejar, Isaac I.; Deane, Paul D.; Flor, Michael; Chen, Jing – ETS Research Report Series, 2017
The report is the first systematic evaluation of the sentence equivalence item type introduced by the "GRE"® revised General Test. We adopt a validity framework to guide our investigation based on Kane's approach to validation whereby a hierarchy of inferences that should be documented to support score meaning and interpretation is…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Graduate Study, Generalization, Inferences
Davey, Tim; Lee, Yi-Hsuan – ETS Research Report Series, 2011
Both theoretical and practical considerations have led the revision of the Graduate Record Examinations® (GRE®) revised General Test, here called the rGRE, to adopt a multistage adaptive design that will be continuously or nearly continuously administered and that can provide immediate score reporting. These circumstances sharply constrain the…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Scoring, Equated Scores, College Entrance Examinations
Attali, Yigal; Powers, Don; Hawthorn, John – ETS Research Report Series, 2008
Registered examinees for the GRE® General Test answered open-ended sentence-completion items. For half of the items, participants received immediate feedback on the correctness of their answers and up to two opportunities to revise their answers. A significant feedback-and-revision effect was found. Participants were able to correct many of their…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Graduate Study, Sentences, Psychometrics
Ferguson, Janet; Tryjankowski, Anne Marie – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2009
This study examined performance of Master's-level students in an online course in Cognition, Learning and Assessment and compared it with the performance of students in a face-to-face classroom setting of the same course (N = 70). Data were collected from six sections of the course over a two-year period. The same professor taught all sections.…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Online Courses, Statistical Analysis, Conventional Instruction
Graf, Edith Aurora; Peterson, Stephen; Steffen, Manfred; Lawless, René – ETS Research Report Series, 2005
We describe the item modeling development and evaluation process as applied to a quantitative assessment with high-stakes outcomes. In addition to expediting the item-creation process, a model-based approach may reduce pretesting costs, if the difficulty and discrimination of model-generated items may be predicted to a predefined level of…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Accuracy, Item Analysis, High Stakes Tests
