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Mishra, Shitala P. – 1983
The study investigated cultural bias in the verbal items of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R). Six verbal subtests of the WISC-R were administered to 40 Anglo, 40 Mexican-American, and 40 Navajo intermediate grade students matched for grade level, sex, and socioeconomic status. The responses of three groups of subjects…
Descriptors: Ethnic Bias, Intelligence Tests, Intermediate Grades, Maximum Likelihood Statistics
Olson, Allan; Smoyer, Susan – 1988
The Science Curriculum and Assessment Project is a multi-state network of school districts and other educational agencies that actively promotes science improvement through the alignment of curriculum, instruction, and assessment. This document describes the major areas of project work, specifications and review procedures for test items in the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment, Elementary School Science, Item Banks
Lancaster, Diana M.; And Others – 1987
Difficulty and discrimination ability were compared between multiple choice and short answer items in midterm and final examinations for the internal medicine course at Louisiana State University School of Dentistry. The examinations were administered to 67 sophomore dental students in that course. Additionally, the impact of the source of the…
Descriptors: Dental Schools, Dentistry, Difficulty Level, Discriminant Analysis
Herman, Joan; Winters, Lynn – 1985
This manual is designed to provide teachers with technically sound, easy-to-follow procedures for developing diagnostic tests to be used with their own students. The definition of diagnostic testing is broadened to include any tests systematically designed to provide information about skills that students have or have not mastered. A five-step…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Field Tests
Bejar, Isaac I. – 1986
This paper considers the feasibility of incorporating research results from cognitive science into the modeling of performance on psychometric tests and the construction of test items. The paper focuses on the feasibility of modeling performance on a three-dimensional rotation task within the context of Item Response Theory (IRT). To test the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Difficulty Level
Mislevy, Robert J. – 1987
Standard procedures for estimating item parameters in Item Response Theory models make no use of auxiliary information about test items, such as their format or content, or the skills they require for solution. This paper describes a framework for exploiting this information, thereby enhancing the precision and stability of item parameter…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Difficulty Level, Estimation (Mathematics), Intermediate Grades
Romberg, Thomas A.; And Others – 1982
Procedural documentation is presented for administering, scoring and analyzing data gathered to examine the construct validity of a set of superitems developed to assess student levels of mathematical reasoning ability. Each superitem includes a mathematical situation and a structured set of questions about that situation. The questions were based…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Item Analysis, Mathematics Achievement
Georgia State Dept. of Education, Atlanta. – 1980
The Kindergarten Assessment Project test to provide diagnostic instructional information to the teacher on individual student cognitive skills in Communication Arts and Number Understanding is presented. The criterion-referenced test cuts across the domains of social-affective functioning, perceptual-psychomotor functioning, and cognitive-language…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Communication Skills, Criterion Referenced Tests, Kindergarten
Masters, Geoff N.; Wright, Benjamin D. – 1982
The analysis of fit of data to a measurement model for graded responses is described. The model is an extension of Rasch's dichotomous model to formats which provide more than two levels of response to items. The model contains one parameter for each person and one parameter for each "step" in an item. A dichotomously-scored item…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Goodness of Fit, Item Analysis, Latent Trait Theory
New South Wales Dept. of Education, Sydney (Australia). – 1979
The multiple-choice test items collected in this volume were selected from questions submitted by teachers in New South Wales for the Science Library of Test Items. The collection is intended as a resource to assist teachers in implementing and evaluating courses in the first 4 years of Australian secondary school. To ensure quality in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, General Science, Item Banks, Multiple Choice Tests
New South Wales Dept. of Education, Sydney (Australia). – 1979
The second volume of test items in the Science Library of Test Items is intended as a resource to assist teachers in implementing and evaluating science courses in the first 4 years of Australian secondary school. The items were selected from questions submitted to the School Certificate Development Unit by teachers in New South Wales. Only the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, General Science, Item Banks, Multiple Choice Tests
New South Wales Dept. of Education, Sydney (Australia). – 1982
As part of a series of tests to measure mastery of specific skills in the natural sciences, print masters of tests 66 through 91 are provided. Among the areas covered are: carbon compounds; evolution; map reading; genetics; energy; chemical formulae; electricity; graphs; metric measures; solubility; and physical separations. Many tests contain…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Item Banks, Multiple Choice Tests, Natural Sciences
O'Brien, Mary Utne; Ingels, Steven J. – 1984
Intended to provide information about the development of the Economics Values Inventory (EVI), the report describes considerations that directed development of test items and provides indicators of the reliability and validity of the proposed test instrument. The EVI is recommended as an effective measuring instrument in experimental evaluations…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, Economics
Muraki, Eiji – 1984
The TESTFACT computer program and full-information factor analysis of test items were used in a computer simulation conducted to correct for the guessing effect. Full-information factor analysis also corrects for omitted items. The present version of TESTFACT handles up to five factors and 150 items. A preliminary smoothing of the tetrachoric…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Simulation, Computer Software, Correlation
Brennan, Mervin M.; Redding, Kenneth R. – 1985
A Teacher Survey was developed for administration to Illinois teachers whose students take the Illinois Inventory of Educational Progress (IIEP). The IIEP are the achievement tests of the state assessment program. The purposes of the Teacher Survey range from determination of a test's curricular validity to investigations of teachers' abilities to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Predictive Validity
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