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Stephane E. Collignon; Josey Chacko; Salman Nazir – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2024
Most business schools require students to take at least one technical Management Information System (MIS) course. Due to the technical nature of the material, the course and the assessments tend to be anxiety inducing. With over three out of every five students in US colleges suffering from "overwhelming anxiety" in some form, we study…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Test Format, Business Schools, Information Systems
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Ashish Gurung; Kirk Vanacore; Andrew A. McReynolds; Korinn S. Ostrow; Eamon S. Worden; Adam C. Sales; Neil T. Heffernan – Grantee Submission, 2024
Learning experience designers consistently balance the trade-off between open and close-ended activities. The growth and scalability of Computer Based Learning Platforms (CBLPs) have only magnified the importance of these design trade-offs. CBLPs often utilize close-ended activities (i.e. Multiple-Choice Questions [MCQs]) due to feasibility…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Testing, Test Format, Computer Assisted Testing
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Qian Liu; Navé Wald; Chandima Daskon; Tony Harland – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2024
This qualitative study looks at multiple-choice questions (MCQs) in examinations and their effectiveness in testing higher-order cognition. While there are claims that MCQs can do this, we consider many assertions problematic because of the difficulty in interpreting what higher-order cognition consists of and whether or not assessment tasks…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Critical Thinking, College Faculty, Student Evaluation
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Gerring, John; Pemstein, Daniel; Skaaning, Svend-Erik – Sociological Methods & Research, 2021
A key obstacle to measurement is the aggregation problem. Where indicators tap into common latent traits in theoretically meaningful ways, the problem may be solved by applying a data-informed ("inductive") measurement model, for example, factor analysis, structural equation models, or item response theory. Where they do not, researchers…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Measures (Individuals), Concept Formation, Social Science Research
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Uysal, Ibrahim; Dogan, Nuri – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2021
Scoring constructed-response items can be highly difficult, time-consuming, and costly in practice. Improvements in computer technology have enabled automated scoring of constructed-response items. However, the application of automated scoring without an investigation of test equating can lead to serious problems. The goal of this study was to…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Scoring, Item Response Theory, Test Format
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Sherman, Tyler J.; Harvey, Tanner M.; Royse, Emily A.; Heim, Ashley B.; Smith, Cara F.; Romano, Alicia B.; King, Aspen E.; Lyons, David O.; Holt, Emily A. – Journal of Biological Education, 2021
Formative assessments have been shown to improve student success; however, the format in which these assessments are implemented has not been well researched. In this study, individual Anatomy and Physiology lab sections were administered formative assessments composed of either a projected (i.e. 'shared-display') quiz presentation or a…
Descriptors: Test Format, Academic Achievement, Decision Making, Student Behavior
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Jason L. Anthony; Yi-Jui Iva Chen; Jeffrey M. Williams; Weiliang Cen; Noé A. Erazo – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Construct confusion and measurement challenges have plagued emergent literacy research for decades. Using a 2 × 2 × 2 factorial design, this study evaluated the dimensionality of alphabet knowledge and identified the sequence of development of 8 alphabet knowledge skills. Eleven models were evaluated in a sample of 3,692 preschool- and elementary…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Elementary School Students, Alphabets, English
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Rooha, Aysha; Anil, Malavika Anakkathil; Bhat, Jayashree S.; Bajaj, Gagan; Deshpande, Apramita – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2023
The lack of research exploring the influence of dynamic visual narratives on inference skills prompted the present study with an aim to profile the inference skills in school children between the ages of 6 years and 9 years 11 months using dynamic visual narratives. A total of 80 participants were considered for the study. An animated story was…
Descriptors: Inferences, Executive Function, Logical Thinking, Thinking Skills
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Wolkowitz, Amanda A.; Foley, Brett; Zurn, Jared – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2023
The purpose of this study is to introduce a method for converting scored 4-option multiple-choice (MC) items into scored 3-option MC items without re-pretesting the 3-option MC items. This study describes a six-step process for achieving this goal. Data from a professional credentialing exam was used in this study and the method was applied to 24…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Test Items, Accuracy, Test Format
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Necati Taskin; Kerem Erzurumlu – Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2023
In this study, online test scores and paper-pencil test scores of students studying through online learning were examined. Causal-comparative research was used to determine the distribution of students' test scores and to examine the relationship between them. The participants of the research are freshman students studying in 12 faculties and 8…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Scores, Test Format, Paper (Material)
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Casandra Koevoets-Beach; Karen Julian; Morgan Balabanoff – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2023
Two-tiered assessment structures with paired content and confidence items are frequently used within chemistry assessments to stimulate and measure students' metacognition. The confidence judgment is designed to promote students' reflection on their application of content knowledge and can be characterized as calibrated or miscalibrated based on…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Self Concept, Student Attitudes, Mastery Learning
Megumi E. Takada; Christopher J. Lemons; Lakshmi Balasubramanian; Bonnie T. Hallman; Stephanie Al Otaiba; Cynthia S. Puranik – Grantee Submission, 2023
There have been a handful of studies on kindergarteners' motivational beliefs about writing, yet measuring these beliefs in young children continues to pose a set of challenges. The purpose of this exploratory, mixed-methods study was to examine how kindergarteners understand and respond to different assessment formats designed to capture their…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Student Attitudes, Student Motivation
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Tang, Yinjie; Luo, Shaoqian – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2022
This paper probes into implicit language aptitude (LA), a set of cognitive abilities that showcase learners' unconscious, automatic second language (L2) attainment. Implicit LA is becoming an important part of aptitude research, and advances the understanding of L2 learning mechanism. This paper critiques the construct of implicit LA and proposes…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Language Tests, Cognitive Ability, Second Language Learning
Allen, Jeff – ACT, Inc., 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic caused widespread disruptions to the educational system in Arkansas and across the United States. At the onset of the pandemic in March 2020, schools in Arkansas were forced to replace on-site instruction with virtual instruction. During the 2020-2021 academic year, there were three student instructional options:…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Academic Achievement, Electronic Learning
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Kim, Kyung Yong; Lim, Euijin; Lee, Won-Chan – International Journal of Testing, 2019
For passage-based tests, items that belong to a common passage often violate the local independence assumption of unidimensional item response theory (UIRT). In this case, ignoring local item dependence (LID) and estimating item parameters using a UIRT model could be problematic because doing so might result in inaccurate parameter estimates,…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Equated Scores, Test Items, Models
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