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Gohmann, Stephan F.; Spector, Lee C. – Journal of Economic Education, 1989
Compares the effect of content ordering and scrambled ordering on examinations in courses, such as economics, that require quantitative skills. Empirical results suggest that students do no better if they are given a content-ordered rather than a scrambled examination as student performance is not adversely affected by scrambled ordered…
Descriptors: Cheating, Economics Education, Educational Research, Grading
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Scott, Mary Lee – Language Testing, 1986
Assessed native Brazilian students' affective reactions to different oral English-as-a-Foreign-Language achievement test formats. A multivariate analysis of variance based on the results of a factor analysis showed no significant difference among student reactions to the different test formats. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Riding, Richard; Caine, Tracey – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1993
Reports on a preliminary study of cognitive style and performance of 182 secondary students on the British General Certificate of Secondary Education. Finds that students who tested at an intermediate position on both dimensions of the Wholist-Analytic cognitive style measure did best on the test. (CFR)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Tests, Educational Assessment
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Geisinger, Kurt F. – Psychological Assessment, 1994
Issues affecting measures that are translated or adapted from an initial language or culture to a new one are described. Notions of test validation, fairness, and norms are addressed, and it is argued that such adaptations may be necessary when assessing members of subpopulations of the U.S. culture. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Culture Fair Tests
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Colliver, Jerry A.; And Others – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1992
The presence and extent of overlap between checklist and written scores using data for over 400 medical students in 6 classes on an examination including clinical encounter stations with standardized patients were studied. Eighty-three cases used both measures. Written scores provide information in addition to that of the checklists. (SLD)
Descriptors: Check Lists, Clinical Diagnosis, Comparative Testing, Competence
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Rosenfeld, Rochelle; And Others – Psychological Assessment, 1992
A computer-administered version of the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale was administered to 31 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder, 16 with other anxiety disorders, and 23 nonpatient controls. The computer version correlated highly with the clinician-administered version and was well understood and liked by subjects. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adults, Anxiety, Behavior Patterns, Comparative Testing
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Nickell, Pat – Social Education, 1992
Presents an interview with Grant Wiggins, executive director of an educational consulting group. Discusses performance assessment and authenticity in testing. Addresses topics such as the student as worker, diploma as exhibition of mastery, authenticity of assessment, fairness, and skill as opposed to knowledge. Urges examining desired social…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Objectives, Experiential Learning, Mastery Tests
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Kon, Jane Heckley; Martin-Kniep, Giselle O. – Social Education, 1992
Describes a case study to determine whether performance tests are a feasible alternative to multiple-choice tests. Examines the difficulties of administering and scoring performance assessments. Explains that the study employed three performance tests and one multiple-choice test. Concludes that performance test administration and scoring was no…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Educational Research, Educational Testing, Geography Instruction
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Cohen, Allan S.; Kim, Seock-Ho – Applied Measurement in Education, 1992
Studied effects of students' use of calculators with 2 experimental forms of a university mathematics test taken by 765 and 725 college students, respectively. Calculator effects are not found for overall scores but are seen for some individual items. Analysis at the item level makes the actual impact apparent. (SLD)
Descriptors: Calculators, College Students, Educational Technology, Equations (Mathematics)
Jones, Stan – TESL Talk, 1990
Discusses a variety of techniques for conducting assessments of English-as-a-Second-Language literacy programs, analyzes several existing tests, and presents ideas for creating new tests. A notion is considered for assessing first language literacy with learners who know neither official language in Canada. (10 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Basic Skills, Educational Assessment, English (Second Language)
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Rafaeli, Sheizaf; Tractinsky, Noam – Computers in Human Behavior, 1991
Discussion of time-related measures in computerized ability tests focuses on a study of college students that used two intelligence test item types to develop a multitrait, multimethod assessment of response time measures. Convergent and discriminant validation are discussed, correlations between response time and accuracy are examined, and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Correlation, Higher Education, Intelligence Tests
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Rogers, W. Todd; Harley, Dwight – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1999
Examined item-level and test-level characteristics for items in a high-stakes school-leaving mathematics examination. Results from 158 students show that the influence of testwiseness is lessened when three-option items are used. Tests of three-option items are at least equivalent to four-option item tests in terms of internal-consistency score…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, High School Students, High Schools, High Stakes Tests
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Sinclair, Robert C.; Soldat, Alexander S.; Mark, Melvin M. – Teaching of Psychology, 1998
Argues that external cues provide affective information that influence processing strategy and, therefore, examination performance. Notes the differences in performance for two midterm examinations, identical, except that they were printed on blue and red paper. Discusses a method for appropriately adjusting scores to control for form effects.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Color, Cues, Dimensional Preference
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O'Neil, Harold F., Jr.; Brown, Richard S. – Applied Measurement in Education, 1998
The effect of item format on metacognitive and affective processes of children in a large-scale mathematics assessment program were studied. Results from 1032 eighth graders indicate that open-ended and multiple choice items have differential effects, although these did not vary substantially as a function of gender and ethnicity. (SLD)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Ethnicity, Grade 8, Junior High School Students
Tuckman, Bruce W. – Educational Technology, 1994
Presents an entertaining look at changes in educational trends and attitudes. This humorous treatment compares and contrasts constructivist versus behaviorist learning approaches, intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation, portfolio versus multiple choice testing, qualitative versus experimental research, and intuition versus logical reasoning. (SLW)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behaviorism, Comparative Analysis, Constructivism (Learning)
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