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Download full textBridgeman, Brent; Morgan, Rick – 1994
Students with high scores (top third) on the essay portion of an Advanced Placement Examination (AP) (College Board) and low scores (bottom third) on the multiple-choice portion of the same examination were compared with students whose performance showed the opposite pattern. Across examinations in different subject areas (history, English, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advanced Placement, Advanced Placement Programs, Biology
Bridgeman, Brent; And Others – 1996
If a student writes two essays, the score reliability can be estimated from the correlation between essays. However, if the essays are in different modes or require different skills, the reliability may be underestimated from the correlation. In Advanced Placement history examinations, students wrote one standard essay and one essay that required…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Constructed Response, Correlation, Essay Tests
Peer reviewedBridgeman, Brent; Morgan, Rick – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1996
Students from 38 colleges with high scores on an advanced placement examination essay and low scores on the multiple-choice portion were compared with students with the opposite pattern. The pattern was not related to college grades, but was related to other test performance. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advanced Placement, College Students, Error Patterns
Bridgeman, Brent; And Others – 1996
The various methods for computing the reliability of scores on Advanced Placement (AP) examinations are summarized. For the free response portion of the examinations, raters can contribute to score unreliability through both systematic severity errors (in which some raters consistently rate more severely than other raters) and through…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, College Entrance Examinations, Error of Measurement, High School Students
Bridgeman, Brent; And Others – 1996
This study assessed the ability of high school advanced placement history students to choose the essay topic on which they can get the highest score. A second, equally important, question was whether the score on the chosen topic was more highly related to other indicators of proficiency in history than the score on the unchosen topic. Overall,…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Essay Tests, European History, High Achievement
Bridgeman, Brent – 1989
The Advanced Placement Program reports grades to students and colleges on a 1 to 5 point scale derived from combining the separate scores on the multiple-choice and free-response sections of Advanced Placement Examinations (ADPEs). In this study, predictions of grades in first-semester college biology courses were made based on students' separate…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Biology, College Bound Students, College Entrance Examinations
Bridgeman, Brent; Lewis, Charles – 1991
Essay and multiple-choice scores from Advanced Placement (AP) examinations in American History, European History, English Language and Composition, and Biology were matched with freshman grades in a sample of 32 colleges. Multiple-choice scores from the American History and Biology examinations were superior to essays for predicting overall grade…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Biology, College Freshmen, English
