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Leight, Hayley; Saunders, Cheston; Calkins, Robin; Withers, Michelle – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2012
Collaborative testing has been shown to improve performance but not always content retention. In this study, we investigated whether collaborative testing could improve both performance and content retention in a large, introductory biology course. Students were semirandomly divided into two groups based on their performances on exam 1. Each group…
Descriptors: Individual Testing, Biology, Scoring, Group Testing
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Kim, Sooyeon; Walker, Michael E.; McHale, Frederick – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2010
In this study we examined variations of the nonequivalent groups equating design for tests containing both multiple-choice (MC) and constructed-response (CR) items to determine which design was most effective in producing equivalent scores across the two tests to be equated. Using data from a large-scale exam, this study investigated the use of…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Scoring, Equated Scores, Test Bias