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Download full textShilna, V.; Gafoor, K. Abdul – Online Submission, 2016
Learning chemistry is a hard task for many secondary school students; thus, students find it tough to score better marks in chemistry. Researchers have identified many reasons and suggested lots of alternatives to overcome difficulties in chemistry. This paper focuses on whether the test item construction has any role in the response pattern of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Short Term Memory, Multiple Choice Tests, Science Tests
Staley, Richard K.; Wolf, Richard I. – 1977
A 3 x 3 x 2 factorial design was used with 120 undergraduate subjects to study the effects of question type on learning from prose. A 2,000-word reading passage on geological history was presented, with factual questions on each page. Questions were also presented after the reading activity. When compared to a reading only control group, the short…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Style, Factual Reading, Higher Education
McNamara, Thomas C. – 1990
An attempt was made to develop self-directedness in students through teaching them how to write questions in multiple-choice format, and by making students aware that phrasing things in multiple-choice format is a way of asking questions that is conducive to developing thinking, writing, and test-taking skills. The study, a form of reflective…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 2
Katz, Irvin R.; Friedman, Debra E.; Bennett, Randy Elliot; Berger, Aliza E. – College Entrance Examination Board, 1996
This study investigated the strategies subjects adopted to solve STEM-equivalent SAT-Mathematics (SAT-M) word problems in constructed-response (CR) and multiple-choice (MC) formats. Parallel test forms of CR and MC items were administered to subjects representing a range of mathematical abilities. Format-related differences in difficulty were more…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, College Entrance Examinations, Problem Solving, Cognitive Style
Schoen, Harold L.; And Others – 1987
The estimation processes used by fifth through eighth grade students as they responded to computational estimation test items were examined. Interview-based process descriptions were cross-validated using large group test data from an open-ended test and a multiple choice test. Five question formats were used to test different estimation…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Style
Peer reviewedArmstrong, Anne-Marie – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1993
The effects of test performance of differentially written multiple-choice tests and test takers' cognitive style were studied for 47 graduate students and 35 public school and college teachers. Adhering to test-writing item guidelines resulted in mean scores basically the same for two groups of differing cognitive style. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Faculty, Comparative Testing, Graduate Students
