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ERIC Number: ED595250
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2019-Apr
Pages: 13
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: EISSN-
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Investigating the Comparability of Multiple-Choice and Constructed-Response Science Assessments
Herrmann-Abell, Cari F.; Hardcastle, Joseph; DeBoer, George E.
Grantee Submission, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) (Toronto, Canada, Apr 5-9, 2019)
The "Next Generation Science Standards" calls for new assessments that measure students' integrated three-dimensional science learning. The National Research Council has suggested that these assessments utilize a combination of item formats including constructed-response and multiple-choice. In this study, students were randomly assigned three-dimensional assessments that contained either constructed-response or multiple-choice versions of items. Rasch analysis was used to compare the difficulty of these items on the same construct scale. We found that partial-credit constructed-response items were located at similar places on the scale as their multiple-choice counterpart but dichotomously-scored constructed-response items were considerably more difficult. This suggests that scoring method influences an item's difficulty, which has implications for what inferences are made from assessments.
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences (ED)
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IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: R305A180512
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