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Baker, Gianina R.; Jankowski, Natasha A.; Provezis, Staci; Kinzie, Jillian – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2012
Most institutions are collecting evidence of student learning, but it is not clear how these results are being used to improve student outcomes. To learn more about what colleges and universities are doing to use assessment data productively to inform and strengthen undergraduate education, the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Student Evaluation, Undergraduate Students, Test Results
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Zenisky, April L.; Hambleton, Ronald K. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2012
Test scores matter these days. Test-takers want to understand how they performed, and test score reports, particularly those for individual examinees, are the vehicles by which most people get the bulk of this information. Historically, score reports have not always met the examinees' information or usability needs, but this is clearly changing…
Descriptors: Scores, Psychometrics, Test Results, Usability
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Carlson, Ronald; McChesney, Christopher – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
The authors examined the state of United States student academic readiness for higher education from a global perspective utilizing data from the Organization of Economic and Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which tests over a half a million 15 year old student's skills and knowledge.…
Descriptors: College Readiness, College Preparation, Scores, Comparative Analysis
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Sinharay, Sandip; Puhan, Gautam; Haberman, Shelby J. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2011
The purpose of this ITEMS module is to provide an introduction to subscores. First, examples of subscores from an operational test are provided. Then, a review of methods that can be used to examine if subscores have adequate psychometric quality is provided. It is demonstrated, using results from operational and simulated data, that subscores…
Descriptors: Scores, Psychometrics, Tests, Data
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Uy, Chin; Manalo, Ronaldo A.; Cabauatan, Ronaldo R. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2015
In the Philippines, students seeking admission to a university are usually required to meet certain entrance requirements, including passing the entrance examinations with questions on IQ and English, mathematics, and science. This paper aims to determine the factors that affect the performance of entrants into business programmes in high-stakes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Entrance Examinations, Business Administration Education, High Stakes Tests
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Han, Jing; Bao, Lei; Chen, Li; Cai, Tianfang; Pi, Yuan; Zhou, Shaona; Tu, Yan; Koenig, Kathleen – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2015
The Force Concept Inventory (FCI) is a 30-question multiple-choice assessment that has been a building block for much of the physics education research done today. In practice, there are often concerns regarding the length of the test and possible test-retest effects. Since many studies in the literature use the mean score of the FCI as the…
Descriptors: Physics, Multiple Choice Tests, Science Instruction, Scores
Warner, Zachary B. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study compared an expert-based cognitive model of domain mastery with student-based cognitive models of task performance for Integrated Algebra. Interpretations of student test results are limited by experts' hypotheses of how students interact with the items. In reality, the cognitive processes that students use to solve each item may be…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Algebra, Test Results, Measurement
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Ruscio, John; Gera, Benjamin Lee – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 2013
Researchers are strongly encouraged to accompany the results of statistical tests with appropriate estimates of effect size. For 2-group comparisons, a probability-based effect size estimator ("A") has many appealing properties (e.g., it is easy to understand, robust to violations of parametric assumptions, insensitive to outliers). We review…
Descriptors: Psychological Studies, Gender Differences, Researchers, Test Results
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Urval, Rathnakar P.; Kamath, Ashwin; Ullal, Sheetal; Shenoy, Ashok K.; Shenoy, Nandita; Udupa, Laxminarayana A. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2014
While there are several tools to study learning styles of students, the visual-aural-read/write-kinesthetic (VARK) questionnaire is a simple, freely available, easy to administer tool that encourages students to describe their behavior in a manner they can identify with and accept. The aim is to understand the preferred sensory modality (or…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Undergraduate Students, Medical Students, Academic Achievement
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Azorlosa, Julian L. – Journal of Instructional Psychology, 2012
I administered quizzes to two sections of a course named "The Psychology of Learning." There were three multiple choice exams during the semester. Quizzes were given between exam 1 and exam 2. For one section, (lecture) quizzes occurred after the material had been covered in lecture. For the other section, quizzes were based on material not yet…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Educational Strategies, Psychology, Textbooks
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MacKay, Harry A.; Wilkinson, Krista M.; Farrell, Colleen; Serna, Richard W. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2011
Sidman (1994) noted that the existence of a member that is common to more than one class may produce either class merger (union) or class intersection. A multiple-selection, matching-to-sample test was developed to examine the conditions under which these outcomes occur. Test trials each required three conditional discriminations involving…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Classification, Semantics, Adults
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Zhang, Hui; Mou, Weimin; McNamara, Timothy P. – Cognition, 2011
Three experiments examined the role of reference directions in spatial updating. Participants briefly viewed an array of five objects. A non-egocentric reference direction was primed by placing a stick under two objects in the array at the time of learning. After a short interval, participants detected which object had been moved at a novel view…
Descriptors: Experiments, Spatial Ability, Intervals, Test Results
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Qian, Jiahe; Jiang, Yanming; von Davier, Alina A. – ETS Research Report Series, 2013
Several factors could cause variability in item response theory (IRT) linking and equating procedures, such as the variability across examinee samples and/or test items, seasonality, regional differences, native language diversity, gender, and other demographic variables. Hence, the following question arises: Is it possible to select optimal…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Test Items, Sampling, True Scores
Looser, Joshua – Communique, 2013
Since the passage of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the education system has seen immense shifts in its approach to schooling. Previously, students were taught using an extant curriculum with the instructional methods of the teachers at the school; there was little systematic modification to curriculum and methods; and the variable underlying…
Descriptors: Prevention, High Stakes Tests, Teaching Methods, Scores
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Hartati, Sulis Janu – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2014
This research questions were "how do the characteristics of learning model of logic & algorithm according to APOS theory" and "whether or not these learning model can improve students learning outcomes". This research was conducted by exploration, and quantitative approach. Exploration used in constructing theory about the…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Mathematical Logic, Mathematics Instruction, Outcomes of Education
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