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Direct linkWellberg, Sarah – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2023
Classroom assessment research in the United States has shifted away from the examination of teacher-made tests, but such tests are still widely used and have an enormous impact on students' educational experiences. Given the major shifts in educational policy in the United States, including the widespread adoption of the Common Core State…
Descriptors: Teacher Made Tests, Mathematics Tests, Common Core State Standards, Test Items
Download full textWright, Christian D.; Huang, Austin L.; Cooper, Katelyn M.; Brownell, Sara E. – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2018
College instructors in the United States usually make their own decisions about how to design course exams. Even though summative course exams are well known to be important to student success, we know little about the decision making of instructors when designing course exams. To probe how instructors design exams for introductory biology, we…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Science Teachers, Science Tests, Teacher Made Tests
DiDonato-Barnes, Nicole; Fives, Helenrose; Krause, Emily S. – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2014
We investigated if instruction on a Table of Specifications (TOS) would influence the quality of classroom test construction. Results should prove informative for educational researchers, teacher educators, and practising teachers interested in evidenced-based strategies that may improve assessment-related practices. Fifty-three college…
Descriptors: Teacher Made Tests, Test Construction, Tables (Data), Alignment (Education)
Peer reviewedKlimko, Ivan P. – Journal of Experimental Education, 1984
The influence of item arrangement on students' total test performance was investigated. Two hierarchical multiple regression analyses were used to analyze the data. The main finding within the context of this study was that item arrangements based on item difficulties did not influence achievement examination performance. (Author/DWH)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cognitive Style, College Students, Difficulty Level
Simpson, Deborah E.; Cohen, Elsa B. – 1985
This paper reports a multi-method approach for examining the cognitive level of multiple-choice items used in a medical pathology course at a large midwestern medical school. Analysis of the standard item analysis data and think-out-loud reports of a sample of students completing a 66 item examination were used to test assumptions related to the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Objectives, Difficulty Level, Graduate Medical Education
O'Brien, Michael; Hampilos, John P. – 1984
The feasibility of creating an item bank from a teacher-made test was examined in two comparable sections of a graduate-level introductory measurement course. The 67-item midterm examination contained multiple-choice and master matching items, which required higher level cognitive processes such as application and analysis. The feasibility of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Criterion Referenced Tests, Difficulty Level, Higher Education
