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Peer reviewedTrevisan, Michael S.; And Others – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1994
The reliabilities of 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-choice tests were compared through an incremental-option model on a test taken by 154 high school seniors. Creating the test forms incrementally more closely approximates actual test construction. The nonsignificant differences among the option choices support the three-option item. (SLD)
Descriptors: Distractors (Tests), Estimation (Mathematics), High School Students, High Schools
Adams, Raymond J.; Khoo, Siek-Toon – 1993
The Quest program offers a comprehensive test and questionnaire analysis environment by providing a data analyst (a computer program) with access to the most recent developments in Rasch measurement theory, as well as a range of traditional analysis procedures. This manual helps the user use Quest to construct and validate variables based on…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Software, Estimation (Mathematics), Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedKim, Jwa K.; Nicewander, W. Alan – Psychometrika, 1993
Bias, standard error, and reliability of five ability estimators were evaluated using Monte Carlo estimates of the unknown conditional means and variances of the estimators. Results indicate that estimates based on Bayesian modal, expected a posteriori, and weighted likelihood estimators were reasonably unbiased with relatively small standard…
Descriptors: Ability, Bayesian Statistics, Equations (Mathematics), Error of Measurement
Download full textTrevisan, Michael S.; Sax, Gilbert – 1991
The purpose of this study was to compare the reliabilities of two-, three-, four-, and five-choice tests using an incremental option paradigm. Test forms were created incrementally, a method approximating actual test construction procedures. Participants were 154 12th-grade students from the Portland (Oregon) area. A 45-item test with two options…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Distractors (Tests), Estimation (Mathematics), Grade 12
Kaplan, Bruce A.; Johnson, Eugene G. – 1992
Across the field of educational assessment the case has been made for alternatives to the multiple-choice item type. Most of the alternative types of items require a subjective evaluation by a rater. The reliability of this subjective rating is a key component of these types of alternative items. In this paper, measures of reliability are…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Estimation (Mathematics), Evaluators
Macpherson, Colin R.; Rowley, Glenn L. – 1986
Teacher-made mastery tests were administered in a classroom-sized sample to study their decision consistency. Decision-consistency of criterion-referenced tests is usually defined in terms of the proportion of examinees who are classified in the same way after two test administrations. Single-administration estimates of decision consistency were…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Comparative Testing, Criterion Referenced Tests, Cutting Scores
