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Hong, Maxwell; Rebouças, Daniella A.; Cheng, Ying – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2021
Response time has started to play an increasingly important role in educational and psychological testing, which prompts many response time models to be proposed in recent years. However, response time modeling can be adversely impacted by aberrant response behavior. For example, test speededness can cause response time to certain items to deviate…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Models, Computation, Robustness (Statistics)
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Waters, David P.; Amarie, Dragos; Booth, Rebecca A.; Conover, Christopher; Sayre, Eleanor C. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2019
Conceptual inventory surveys are routinely used in education research to identify student learning needs and assess instructional practices. Students might not fully engage with these instruments because of the low stakes attached to them. This paper explores tests that can be used to estimate the percentage of students in a population who might…
Descriptors: Response Style (Tests), Science Tests, Physics, Student Reaction
Scott, Marcus W. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
One way that examinees can gain an unfair advantage on a test is by having prior access to the test questions and their answers, known as preknowledge. Determining which examinees had preknowledge can be a difficult task. Sometimes, the compromised test content that examinees use to get preknowledge has mistakes in the answer key. Examinees who…
Descriptors: Cheating, Answer Keys, Tests, Identification