Educational Assessment as a Promising Area for Psychometric Research.

Jones, Lyle V.

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ERIC Number: EJ388115

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Publication Date: 1988

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Educational Assessment as a Promising Area for Psychometric Research.

Jones, Lyle V.

Applied Measurement in Education, v1 n3 p233-41 1988

Use of multiple-choice achievement tests is critiqued. Multiple-choice tests are considered heavily weighted toward aptitude and ill-suited to assessment of thinking. Psychometric methods for the development of alternatives to this inadequate form of testing achievement are discussed. (TJH)

Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Creative Thinking, Educational Assessment, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Motivation, Multiple Choice Tests, Problem Solving, Psychometrics, Testing Problems

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers

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Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association (95th, New York, NY, August 28-September 1, 1987).