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Sahai, Vic; Demeyere, Petra; Poirier, Sheila; Piro, Felice – Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation/La Revue canadienne d'evaluation de programme, 1998
The recall of information about Hepatitis B demonstrated by 180 seventh graders was tested with three test types: (1) short-answer; (2) true/false; and (3) multiple-choice. Short answer testing was the most reliable. Suggestions are made for the use of short-answer tests in evaluating student knowledge. (SLD)
Descriptors: Change, Grade 7, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools
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Chalhoub-Deville, Micheline – Foreign Language Annals, 1997
Reports on the Minnesota Articulation Project, providing an overview of the projects' three principal working groups: political action, curriculum, and assessment. The article then outlines the theoretical underpinnings of the proficiency-based assessment instruments developed in French, German, and Spanish and describes in detail the content and…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), French, German, Language Proficiency
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Wester, Anita – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 1995
The effect of different item formats (multiple choice and open) on gender differences in test performance was studied for the Swedish Diagrams, Tables, and Maps (DTM) test with 90 secondary school students. The change to open format resulted in no reduction in gender differences on the DTM. (SLD)
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Foreign Countries, Multiple Choice Tests, Scores
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Ferron, John; And Others – Assessment, 1995
Two cause indicator models were formulated to link items of the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment--Short Form to the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test--Revised. These models were tested with data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (506 and 345 children), and a final model was developed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Causal Models, Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development
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Greve, Kevin W.; And Others – Assessment, 1995
Interset and set-to-total correlations for the California Card Sorting Test were studied for 135 college students and 63 elementary school students. Although subsets were not equivalent, the generally good correlations between subset and total test scores indicated that use of the individual subsets as short forms is justified. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Correlation, Elementary Education
Thompson, Michael – Forum, 2001
Provides insight on preparing students to take the Test of English as a Foreign Language. Specific suggestions include helping teachers to become comfortable with the test's computer-based format and helping students adapt to the test's point of view. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Assisted Testing, English (Second Language), Higher Education
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Fitzpatrick, Anne R.; Lee, Guemin; Gao, Furong – Applied Measurement in Education, 2001
Used generalizability theory to assess the variation in school scores across very short test forms that measured mathematics scores in grades 4 and 8. More than 25,000 students took each form of the 3 tests for each grade. Results demonstrate the lack of comparability in school scores across short, nonparallel tests forms and the importance of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, Generalizability Theory, Institutional Characteristics
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Clariana, Roy B. – International Journal of Instructional Media, 2004
This investigation considers the instructional effects of color as an over-arching context variable when learning from computer displays. The purpose of this investigation is to examine the posttest retrieval effects of color as a local, extra-item non-verbal lesson context variable for constructed-response versus multiple-choice posttest…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Graduate Students, Color, Computer System Design
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Turner, Charles C. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2005
Rapid growth in the use of internet-based instructional technology (IT) necessitates greater attention to the pedagogical implications of this transition. Though much of the literature on the uses of IT focuses on outcomes and student learning, we also need to ask whether and how different technologies force us to reconceive the boundaries for…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Cheating, Student Behavior, Test Format
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Clariana, Roy B.; Wallace, Patricia – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2007
This proof-of-concept investigation describes a computer-based approach for deriving the knowledge structure of individuals and of groups from their written essays, and considers the convergent criterion-related validity of the computer-based scores relative to human rater essay scores and multiple-choice test scores. After completing a…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Multiple Choice Tests, Construct Validity, Cognitive Structures
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Gu, Lixiong; Drake, Samuel; Wolfe, Edward W. – Journal of Technology, Learning, and Assessment, 2006
This study seeks to determine whether item features are related to observed differences in item difficulty (DIF) between computer- and paper-based test delivery media. Examinees responded to 60 quantitative items similar to those found on the GRE general test in either a computer-based or paper-based medium. Thirty-eight percent of the items were…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Test Items, Educational Testing, Student Evaluation
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Weir, Cyril J.; Wu, Jessica R. W. – Language Testing, 2006
Examination boards are often criticized for their failure to provide evidence of comparability across forms, and few such studies are publicly available. This study aims to investigate the extent to which three forms of the General English Proficiency Test Intermediate Speaking Test (GEPTS-I) are parallel in terms of two types of validity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Format, Speech Communication, Check Lists
Angoff, William H. – 1991
An attempt was made to evaluate the standard error of equating (at the mean of the scores) in an ongoing testing program. The interest in estimating the empirical standard error of equating is occasioned by some discomfort with the error normally reported for test scores. Data used for this evaluation came from the Admissions Testing Program of…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Equated Scores, Error of Measurement, High School Students
Wainer, Howard; And Others – 1991
When an examination consists, in whole or in part, of constructed response items, it is a common practice to allow the examinee to choose among a variety of questions. This procedure is usually adopted so that the limited number of items that can be completed in the allotted time does not unfairly affect the examinee. This results in the de facto…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Chemistry, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing
Howe, Mary E.; And Others – 1995
Standardized testing, usually in the form of a multiple choice test, has dominated educational reform throughout Mississippi for the past 2 decades. Because of the minimal impact that standardized testing has traditionally had on curriculum decisions and classroom instruction, a paradigm shift in assessment format was adopted in the State from a…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Research, Instructional Effectiveness
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