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Oyzon, Voltaire Q.; Bendulo, Hermabeth O.; Tibus, Erlinda D.; Bande, Rhodora A.; Macalinao, Myrna L. – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2016
Schools in the Philippines, especially those that are offering teacher education programs, are advised to construct examinations that are Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET)-like test items. This is because "if any aspect of a test is unfamiliar to candidates, they are likely to perform less well than they would do otherwise on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Preferences, Test Format
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Scott, Terry F.; Schumayer, Dániel – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2017
The Force Concept Inventory is one of the most popular and most analyzed multiple-choice concept tests used to investigate students' understanding of Newtonian mechanics. The correct answers poll a set of underlying Newtonian concepts and the coherence of these underlying concepts has been found in the data. However, this inventory was constructed…
Descriptors: World Views, Scientific Concepts, Scientific Principles, Multiple Choice Tests
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Tengberg, Michael – Language Testing, 2017
Reading comprehension tests are often assumed to measure the same, or at least similar, constructs. Yet, reading is not a single but a multidimensional form of processing, which means that variations in terms of reading material and item design may emphasize one aspect of the construct at the cost of another. The educational systems in Denmark,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Competency Tests, Reading Tests, Comparative Analysis
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Madya, Suwarsih; Retnawati, Heri; Purnawan, Ari; Putro, Nur Hidayanto Pancoro Setyo; Apino, Ezi – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2019
This explorative-descriptive study set out to examine the equivalence among Test of English Proficiency (TOEP) forms, developed by the Indonesian Testing Service Centre (ITSC) and co-founded by The Association for The Teaching of English as a Foreign Language in Indonesia (TEFLIN) and The Association of Psychology in Indonesia. Using a…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Solheim, Oddny Judith; Lundetrae, Kjersti – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2018
Gender differences in reading seem to increase throughout schooling and then decrease or even disappear with age, but the reasons for this are unclear. In this study, we explore whether differences in the way "reading literacy" is operationalised can add to our understanding of varying gender differences in international large-scale…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Grade 4, Reading Achievement
Haladyna, Thomas M. – IDEA Center, Inc., 2018
Writing multiple-choice test items to measure student learning in higher education is a challenge. Based on extensive scholarly research and experience, the author describes various item formats, offers guidelines for creating these items, and provides many examples of both good and bad test items. He also suggests some shortcuts for developing…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Multiple Choice Tests, Test Items, Higher Education
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Bush, Martin – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2015
The humble multiple-choice test is very widely used within education at all levels, but its susceptibility to guesswork makes it a suboptimal assessment tool. The reliability of a multiple-choice test is partly governed by the number of items it contains; however, longer tests are more time consuming to take, and for some subject areas, it can be…
Descriptors: Guessing (Tests), Multiple Choice Tests, Test Format, Test Reliability
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Liang, Tie; Wells, Craig S. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2015
Investigating the fit of a parametric model plays a vital role in validating an item response theory (IRT) model. An area that has received little attention is the assessment of multiple IRT models used in a mixed-format test. The present study extends the nonparametric approach, proposed by Douglas and Cohen (2001), to assess model fit of three…
Descriptors: Nonparametric Statistics, Goodness of Fit, Item Response Theory, Test Format
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Menold, Natalja; Tausch, Anja – Sociological Methods & Research, 2016
Effects of rating scale forms on cross-sectional reliability and measurement equivalence were investigated. A randomized experimental design was implemented, varying category labels and number of categories. The participants were 800 students at two German universities. In contrast to previous research, reliability assessment method was used,…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Test Reliability, Measurement, Classification
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Boone, William J. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2016
This essay describes Rasch analysis psychometric techniques and how such techniques can be used by life sciences education researchers to guide the development and use of surveys and tests. Specifically, Rasch techniques can be used to document and evaluate the measurement functioning of such instruments. Rasch techniques also allow researchers to…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Psychometrics, Science Education, Educational Research
Jiajun Guo – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Divergent thinking (DT) tests are the most frequently used types of creativity assessment and have been administered in traditional paper and pencil format for more than a half century. With the prevalence of computer-based testing and increasing demands for large-scale, faster, and more flexible testing procedures, it is necessary to explore and…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Computer Assisted Testing, Creative Thinking, Creativity Tests
Mullis, Ina V. S., Ed.; Martin, Michael O., Ed.; von Davier, Matthias, Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2021
TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) is a long-standing international assessment of mathematics and science at the fourth and eighth grades that has been collecting trend data every four years since 1995. About 70 countries use TIMSS trend data for monitoring the effectiveness of their education systems in a global…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Science Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
Magno, Carlo – UNESCO Bangkok, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted education across the globe leading countries to adapt how they administer and manage high-stakes examinations and large-scale learning assessments. This thematic review describes the measures that countries have taken, in terms of policies and practices, when learning assessments are disrupted by emergencies and…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, COVID-19, Pandemics, Cross Cultural Studies
Reardon, Sean F.; Kalogrides, Demetra; Fahle, Erin M.; Podolsky, Anne; Zárate, Rosalía C. – Educational Researcher, 2018
Prior research suggests that males outperform females, on average, on multiple-choice items compared to their relative performance on constructed-response items. This paper characterizes the extent to which gender achievement gaps on state accountability tests across the United States are associated with those tests' item formats. Using roughly 8…
Descriptors: Test Items, Test Format, Gender Differences, Achievement Gap
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Joyce, Paul – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2018
This article investigates the relative effectiveness of online and paper-based formative assessment in the learning of English as a second language. For this study, 74 Japanese university second language (L2) students took online quizzes, while 71 were given paper-based quizzes to complete. The quiz content was drawn from learning material found…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Homework, Language Proficiency
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