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Answer Changing in Testing Situations: The Role of Metacognition in Deciding Which Answers to Review
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Direct linkStylianou-Georgiou, Agni; Papanastasiou, Elena C. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2017
The purpose of our study was to examine the issue of answer changing in relation to students' abilities to monitor their behaviour accurately while responding to multiple-choice tests. The data for this study were obtained from the final examination administered to students in an educational psychology course. The results of the study indicate…
Descriptors: Role, Metacognition, Testing, Multiple Choice Tests
Steedle, Jeffrey T.; Ferrara, Steve – Applied Measurement in Education, 2016
As an alternative to rubric scoring, comparative judgment generates essay scores by aggregating decisions about the relative quality of the essays. Comparative judgment eliminates certain scorer biases and potentially reduces training requirements, thereby allowing a large number of judges, including teachers, to participate in essay evaluation.…
Descriptors: Essays, Scoring, Comparative Analysis, Evaluators
Li, Chen-Hong; Chen, Cai-Jun; Wu, Meng-Jie; Kuo, Ya-Chu; Tseng, Yun-Ting; Tsai, Shi-Yi; Shih, Hung-Chun – International Journal of Listening, 2017
We examined the effect of cultural familiarity and question-preview types on the listening comprehension of L2 learners. The results showed that the participants who received the full question-preview format scored higher than those receiving either the answer-option preview or question-stem preview, despite a statistically nonsignificant…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Listening Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Cultural Differences
Rassaei, Ehsan – Language Teaching Research, 2017
The current study investigated the effects of three forms of output activity on EFL learners' recognition and recall of second language (L2) vocabulary. To this end, three groups of learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) were instructed to employ the following three output activities after reading two narrative texts: (1) summarizing the…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Multiple Choice Tests, Second Language Instruction
Goswick, Anna E.; Mullet, Hillary G.; Marsh, Elizabeth J. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2013
Children's memories improve throughout childhood, and this improvement is often accompanied by a reduction in suggestibility. In this context, it is surprising that older children learn and reproduce more factual errors from stories than do younger children (Fazio & Marsh, 2008). The present study examined whether this developmental…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Memory, Childrens Literature, Young Children
Hushman, Carolyn J.; Marley, Scott C. – Journal of Educational Research, 2015
The authors investigated whether the amount of instructional guidance affects science learning and self-efficacy. Sixty 9- and 10-year-old children were randomly assigned to one of the following three instructional conditions: (a) guided instruction consisting of examples and student-generated explanations, (b) direct instruction consisting of a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Self Efficacy, Science Education, Science Instruction
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
