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Quantitative Comparisons of Difficulty, Discrimination and Reliability of Machine-Scored Completion Items and Tests (in the MDT Un-Cued Answer-Bank Format) in Contrast with Statistics from Comparable Multiple Choice Questions: The First Round of Results.

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Anderson, Paul S.; Hyers, Albert D. – 1991

Three descriptive statistics (difficulty, discrimination, and reliability) of multiple-choice (MC) test items were compared to those of a new (1980s) format of machine-scored questions. The new method, answer-bank multi-digit testing (MDT), uses alphabetized lists of up to 1,000 alternatives and approximates the completion style of assessment…

Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Correlation

Comparison of Cognitive Retention from Three Testing Methods: Fill-In-The-Blank, Multiple Choice and Multi-Digit Test (MDT)

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Anderson, Paul S.; And Others – Illinois School Research and Development, 1985

Concludes that the Multi-Digit Test stimulates better retention than multiple choice tests while offering the advantage of computerized scoring and analysis. (FL)

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Research, Higher Education