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Saylor, Annabelle; And Others – 1993
The study guide is designed for limited-English-proficient immigrants preparing to take the United States history portion of new citizenship test. An introductory section describes the development of the guide and its field testing. The study guide itself is in large type and simplified English, and consists of five chapters, each focusing on a…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, English (Second Language), Immigrants, Large Type Materials
Rocklin, Thomas – 1989
In self-adapted testing, examinees are allowed to choose the difficulty of each item to be presented immediately before attempting it. Previous research has demonstrated that self-adapted testing leads to better performance than do fixed-order tests and is preferred by examinees. The present study examined the strategies that 29 college students…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Attribution Theory, College Students, Computer Assisted Testing
Kuntz, Patricia – 1982
The quality of mathematics multiple choice items and their susceptibility to test wiseness were examined. Test wiseness was defined as "a subject's capacity to utilize the characteristics and formats of the test and/or test taking situation to receive a high score." The study used results of the Graduate Record Examinations Aptitude Test (GRE) and…
Descriptors: Cues, Item Analysis, Multiple Choice Tests, Psychometrics
Delaware State Dept. of Education, Dover. – 2001
The purpose of this document is to familiarize educators and parents with the text-based portion of the Delaware Student Testing Program (DSTP) writing assessment for third grade. The DSTP writing assessment consists of one "stand-alone" writing prompt (representing 2/3 of the overall writing score) and one "text-based" prompt…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Grade 3, Primary Education, State Standards
Delaware State Dept. of Education, Dover. – 2002
The Delaware Student Testing Program (DSTP) is designed to assess progress toward the Delaware Content Standards. Every year a certain number of items are removed from the test and then selected for public release. This booklet contains items released from the 1998 administration of the DSTP mathematics component tests. Taken as a whole, these…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Dissemination, Mathematics Tests

Rogers, W. Todd; Bateson, David J. – Journal of Experimental Education, 1991
Thirty-six testwise and 41 test-naive high school seniors in British Columbia (Canada) were tested to determine their abilities to apply selected test wiseness principles according to a proposed model of test-taking behavior. To apply the testwiseness strategy, students first needed knowledge of the content tested and test item content. (SLD)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Comparative Testing, Foreign Countries, High School Seniors
Stricker, Lawrence J.; Wilder, Gita Z.; Bridgeman, Brent – International Journal of Testing, 2006
The aim of this study was to assess test takers' attitudes and beliefs about an admissions test used extensively in graduate schools of business in the United States, the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), and the relationships of these attitudes and beliefs to test performance. A set of attitude and belief items was administered by…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Test Wiseness, Gender Differences, Ethnic Groups
Carr, Nathan T. – Language Testing, 2006
The present study focuses on the task characteristics of reading passages and key sentences in a test of second language reading. Using a new methodological approach to describe variation in test task characteristics and explore how differences in these characteristics might relate to examinee performance, it posed the two following research…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Sentences, Reading Comprehension, Factor Analysis
Ferrell, George – 1977
One way to minimize the test taking advantage that test-wise students have is to offer all students the opportunity to become test-wise through formal instruction in test taking. This paper describes the development and use of "Form Z," a test that can be used as a teaching aid or as a research instrument for test wiseness. The test was designed…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Cues, Deduction, Higher Education

Delaware State Dept. of Education, Dover. – 2001
The purpose of this writing sampler is to provide teachers and students with work representing each of the rubric score points for the stand alone writing prompt on the 2001 Delaware Student Testing Program. The student papers included in this document are part of the "anchor sets" (collections of scored student work "anchored"…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Elementary Secondary Education, State Standards, Student Evaluation

Cohen, Allan S.; Kim, Seock-Ho – Applied Measurement in Education, 1992
Studied effects of students' use of calculators with 2 experimental forms of a university mathematics test taken by 765 and 725 college students, respectively. Calculator effects are not found for overall scores but are seen for some individual items. Analysis at the item level makes the actual impact apparent. (SLD)
Descriptors: Calculators, College Students, Educational Technology, Equations (Mathematics)

Rogers, W. Todd; Harley, Dwight – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1999
Examined item-level and test-level characteristics for items in a high-stakes school-leaving mathematics examination. Results from 158 students show that the influence of testwiseness is lessened when three-option items are used. Tests of three-option items are at least equivalent to four-option item tests in terms of internal-consistency score…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, High School Students, High Schools, High Stakes Tests
Morley, Mary; Bridgeman, Brent; Lawless, René – ETS Research Report Series, 2004
This study investigated the transfer of solution strategies between close variants of quantitative reasoning questions. Pre- and posttests were obtained from 406 college undergraduates, all of whom took the same posttest; pretests varied such that one group of participants saw close variants of one set of posttest items while other groups saw…
Descriptors: Test Items, Mathematics Tests, Problem Solving, Pretests Posttests
White, David M. – 1986
This book discusses tricks for answering questions on the Law School Admission Test (LSAT). The tricks are based on an analysis of 12 editions of the LSAT which have been made public pursuant to New York's Truth in Testing Law. Sample LSAT questions published by the Law School Admission Council are referenced to exemplify the tricks' applications…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Higher Education, Multiple Choice Tests, Pretesting
White, David M. – 1985
This book discusses tricks for answering questions on the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT). The tricks are based on an analysis of 20 editions of the GMAT which have been made public pursuant to New York's Truth in Testing Law. Sample GMAT questions published by the Graduate Management Admission Council are referenced to exemplify the…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Higher Education, Multiple Choice Tests, Pretesting