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Commentary: Analysis of Examination Questions Expose Low Faculty Expectations
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White, Harold B. – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2011
The author and other teaching faculty take pride in their ability to write creative and challenging examination questions. Their self-assessment is based on experience and their knowledge of their subject and discipline. Although their judgment may be correct, it is done usually in the absence of deep knowledge of what is known about the…
Descriptors: Test Items, Community Colleges, Molecular Biology, College Faculty
Teacher Constructed Classroom Tests: The Stepchild of Measurement Research.
McKee, Barbara G.; Manning-Curtis, Colleen – 1982
The results of a survey questionnaire of all teaching faculty at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) were presented. The researchers were concerned with teacher-constructed classroom tests and the problems encountered in developing, administering, and grading them. The survey topics included: instructors' current test development…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Higher Education, Measurement Techniques, Questionnaires
Testing Practices and Test Item Preferences of Classroom Teachers.
Marso, Ronald N. – 1985
A questionnaire concerning the use of teacher made tests was completed by 123 public school teachers in Ohio. Five testing practices were examined: (1) number of teacher made tests given during a course or school year; (2) types of test items most commonly used; (3) sources used in obtaining test items; (4) information used in assigning grades;…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Constructed Response, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education