Improving Essay Tests: Structuring the Items and Scoring Responses.

Coker, Donald R.; And Others

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Publication Date: 1988

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Improving Essay Tests: Structuring the Items and Scoring Responses.

Coker, Donald R.; And Others

Clearing House, v61 n6 p253-55 Feb 1988

Notes that essay responses allow students to display the broadest range of cognitive skills. Considers ways of improving essay exams and claims that evaluating essay questions necessitates maintaining the author's anonymity, predetermining the method of awarding points, and scoring papers in a random order. (MM)

Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Constructed Response, Essay Tests, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Objective Tests, Scoring, Skill Analysis, Teacher Made Tests, Test Construction, Test Items

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