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Yangqiuting Li; Chandralekha Singh – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Research-based multiple-choice questions implemented in class with peer instruction have been shown to be an effective tool for improving students' engagement and learning outcomes. Moreover, multiple-choice questions that are carefully sequenced to build on each other can be particularly helpful for students to develop a systematic understanding…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Science Tests, Multiple Choice Tests
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Klender, Sara; Ferriby, Andrew; Notebaert, Andrew – HAPS Educator, 2019
Multiple-choice questions (MCQ) are commonly used on histology examinations. There are many guidelines for how to properly write MCQ and many of them recommend avoiding negatively worded stems. The current study aims to investigate differences between positively and negatively worded stems in a medical histology course by comparing the item…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Science Tests, Biology, Test Construction
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Kim, Sohee; Cole, Ki Lynn; Mwavita, Mwarumba – International Journal of Testing, 2018
This study investigated the effects of linking potentially multidimensional test forms using the fixed item parameter calibration. Forms had equal or unequal total test difficulty with and without confounding difficulty. The mean square errors and bias of estimated item and ability parameters were compared across the various confounding tests. The…
Descriptors: Test Items, Item Response Theory, Test Format, Difficulty Level
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Loudon, Catherine; Macias-Muñoz, Aide – Advances in Physiology Education, 2018
Different versions of multiple-choice exams were administered to an undergraduate class in human physiology as part of normal testing in the classroom. The goal was to evaluate whether the number of options (possible answers) per question influenced the effectiveness of this assessment. Three exams (each with three versions) were given to each of…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Test Construction, Test Items, Science Tests
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Jonathan Trace – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2023
The role of context in cloze tests has long been seen as both a benefit as well as a complication in their usefulness as a measure of second language comprehension (Brown, 2013). Passage cohesion, in particular, would seem to have a relevant and important effect on the degree to which cloze items function and the interpretability of performances…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Cloze Procedure, Connected Discourse, Test Items
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Raymond, Mark R.; Stevens, Craig; Bucak, S. Deniz – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2019
Research suggests that the three-option format is optimal for multiple choice questions (MCQs). This conclusion is supported by numerous studies showing that most distractors (i.e., incorrect answers) are selected by so few examinees that they are essentially nonfunctional. However, nearly all studies have defined a distractor as nonfunctional if…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Credentials, Test Format, Test Items
Keng, Leslie; Boyer, Michelle – National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, 2020
ACT requested assistance from the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment (Center for Assessment) to investigate declines of scores for states administering the ACT to its 11th grade students in 2018. This request emerged from conversations among state leaders, the Center for Assessment, and ACT in trying to understand the…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Scores, Test Score Decline, Educational Trends
Lina Anaya; Nagore Iriberri; Pedro Rey-Biel; Gema Zamarro – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
Standardized assessments are widely used to determine access to educational resources with important consequences for later economic outcomes in life. However, many design features of the tests themselves may lead to psychological reactions influencing performance. In particular, the level of difficulty of the earlier questions in a test may…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Wiseness, Test Items, Difficulty Level
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Lindner, Marlit A.; Schult, Johannes; Mayer, Richard E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
This classroom experiment investigates the effects of adding representational pictures to multiple-choice and constructed-response test items to understand the role of the response format for the multimedia effect in testing. Participants were 575 fifth- and sixth-graders who answered 28 science test items--seven items in each of four experimental…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Grade 6, Multimedia Materials
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Arce-Ferrer, Alvaro J.; Bulut, Okan – Journal of Experimental Education, 2019
This study investigated the performance of four widely used data-collection designs in detecting test-mode effects (i.e., computer-based versus paper-based testing). The experimental conditions included four data-collection designs, two test-administration modes, and the availability of an anchor assessment. The test-level and item-level results…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Test Construction, Test Format, Computer Assisted Testing
National Assessment Governing Board, 2019
Since 1973, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has gathered information about student achievement in mathematics. The NAEP assessment in mathematics has two components that differ in purpose. One assessment measures long-term trends in achievement among 9-, 13-, and 17-year-old students by using the same basic design each time.…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Mathematics Achievement, Grade 4, Grade 8
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Kim, Ahyoung Alicia; Tywoniw, Rurik L.; Chapman, Mark – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2022
Technology-enhanced items (TEIs) are innovative, computer-delivered test items that allow test takers to better interact with the test environment compared to traditional multiple-choice items (MCIs). The interactive nature of TEIs offer improved construct coverage compared with MCIs but little research exists regarding students' performance on…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Test Items, Computer Assisted Testing, English (Second Language)
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Liao, Linyu – English Language Teaching, 2020
As a high-stakes standardized test, IELTS is expected to have comparable forms of test papers so that test takers from different test administration on different dates receive comparable test scores. Therefore, this study examined the text difficulty and task characteristics of four parallel academic IELTS reading tests to reveal to what extent…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Tests, High Stakes Tests
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Gu, Lin; Ling, Guangming; Liu, Ou Lydia; Yang, Zhitong; Li, Guirong; Kardanova, Elena; Loyalka, Prashant – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2021
We examine the effects of computer-based versus paper-based assessment of critical thinking skills, adapted from English (in the U.S.) to Chinese. Using data collected based on a random assignment between the two modes in multiple Chinese colleges, we investigate mode effects from multiple perspectives: mean scores, measurement precision, item…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Tests, Test Format, Computer Assisted Testing
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Morgan, Grant B.; Moore, Courtney A.; Floyd, Harlee S. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2018
Although content validity--how well each item of an instrument represents the construct being measured--is foundational in the development of an instrument, statistical validity is also important to the decisions that are made based on the instrument. The primary purpose of this study is to demonstrate how simulation studies can be used to assist…
Descriptors: Simulation, Decision Making, Test Construction, Validity
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