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Download full textLiu, Jinghua; Feigenbaum, Miriam; Cook, Linda – College Entrance Examination Board, 2004
This study explored possible configurations of the new SAT® critical reading section without analogy items. The item pool contained items from SAT verbal (SAT-V) sections of 14 previously administered SAT tests, calibrated using the three-parameter logistic IRT model. Multiple versions of several prototypes that do not contain analogy items were…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Critical Reading, Logical Thinking, Difficulty Level
Liu, Jinghua; Allspach, Jill R.; Feigenbaum, Miriam; Oh, Hyeon-Joo; Burton, Nancy – College Entrance Examination Board, 2004
This study evaluated whether the addition of a writing section to the SAT Reasoning Test™ (referred to as the SAT® in this study) would impact test-taker performance because of fatigue caused by increased test length. The study also investigated test-takers' subjective feelings of fatigue. Ninety-seven test-takers were randomly assigned to three…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Writing Skills, Fatigue (Biology), Influences
