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Peer reviewedRippey, Robert M.; Donato, Joy – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1978
Confidence scored tests allow subjects to respond to the options on a multiple choice test by assigning probabilities to each of the item options. This paper describes an interactive FORTRAN computer program used for administering, scoring, and interpreting the results of confidence scored tests. (Author/JKS)
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Confidence Testing, Measurement Techniques, Multiple Choice Tests
Leclercq, Dieudonne – Evaluation in Education: An International Review Series, 1982
In a confidence weighting situation, the examinee is asked to indicate the correct answer, and how certain he or she is of the correctness of that answer. This paper reviews the bases for confidence marking, its validity and accuracy in evaluating students, and it's use in research. (BW)
Descriptors: Confidence Testing, Educational Research, Measurement Techniques, Models
Download full textGarvin, Alfred D. – 1972
Various aspects of Confidence Weighting are examined. Variant of Confidence Weighting, its effect on test reliability, and the validity of Confidence Weighting are discussed. (DG)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Confidence Testing, Guessing (Tests), Measurement Techniques
