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Donlon, Thomas F. – 1975
This study empirically determined the optimizing weight to be applied to the Wrongs Total Score in scoring rubrics of the general form = R - kW, where S is the Score, R the Rights Total, k the weight and W the Wrongs Total, if reliability is to be maximized. As is well known, the traditional formula score rests on a theoretical framework which is…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Guessing (Tests), Multiple Choice Tests
Betz, Nancy E.; Weiss, David J. – 1975
A 40-item flexilevel test and a 40-item conventional test were compared using data obtained through (1) computer-administration of the two tests to three groups of college students, and (2) monte carlo simulation of test response patterns. Results indicated the flexilevel score distribution better reflected the underlying normal distribution of…
Descriptors: Ability, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Computer Oriented Programs
Ramaswamy, T.
The Rasch item analysis model is supposed to yield norm-free estimates of ability and easiness values, but there are several possible interpretations of the nature and extent of such norm-freeness. One such interpretation was that to involve the scores of one single experimental group of testees which were embedded in four differently skewed…
Descriptors: Ability, Cloze Procedure, Correlation, Hypothesis Testing
Burton, Nancy W.; And Others – 1976
Assessment exercises (items) in three different formats--multiple-choice with an "I don't know" (IDK) option, multiple-choice without the IDK, and open-ended--were placed at the beginning, middle and end of 45-minute assessment packages (instruments). A balanced incomplete blocks analysis of variance was computed to determine the biasing…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Difficulty Level, Educational Assessment, Guessing (Tests)
Sibley, William L. – 1974
The use of computers in areas of testing, selection, and placement processes for those in military services' training programs are viewed in this paper. Also discussed is a review of the motivational and theoretical foundation of admissible probability testing, the role of the computer in admissible probability testing, and the authors' experience…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computers, Interaction, Military Training
Kalisch, Stanley J. – 1974
A tailored testing model employing the beta distribution, whose mean equals the difficulty of an item and whose variance is approximately equal to the sampling variance of the item difficulty, and employing conditional item difficulties, is proposed. The model provides a procedure by which a minimum number of items of a test, consisting of a set…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Branching, Computer Oriented Programs, Decision Making
Sabers, Darrell; And Others – 1974
Likert-type inventories of children's attitude toward the world of work were administered to approximately 1,500 students in grades 2-8. The positively and negatively stated scores were analyzed separately. Agreement with positively stated items showed almost no difference among the various grades. However, the trend toward more disagreement among…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attitude Measures, Elementary School Students, Junior High School Students
Echternacht, Gary J. – 1972
Differences between black and white, male and female groups who took the Admission Test for Graduate Study in Business (ATGSB) during February 1971 were examined in three studies. The studies were: (1) a study of the biasedness of the test with respect to the groups, (2) a comparison of the mean criterion scores for those candidates who omit…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Black Students, Business Education, Females
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Oller, John W., Jr.; Perkins, Kyle – Language Learning, 1978
Discusses three possible sources of nonrandom but extraneous variance in self-reported attitude data, and demonstrates that these data may be surreptitious measures of verbal intelligence and language proficiency. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Analysis of Variance, Attitude Measures, Correlation
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Macar, Francoise; Grondin, Simon – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1988
Examines interactions between timing accuracy and muscular parameters in children aged five who performed a visuomotor game. Five images were successively presented on a television display at precisely timed intervals for a total period of 11 seconds. Results suggest that timing accuracy is dependent on action-produced sensory cues. (RWB)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten Children, Motor Reactions, Perceptual Motor Coordination
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Bachman, Jerald G.; O'Malley, Patrick M. – American Journal of Sociology, 1984
Blacks are more likely than whites to use the extreme response categories in Likert-type questionnaire items. This general tendency has important implications for Black-white comparisons along self-esteem dimensions. (Author)
Descriptors: Blacks, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Personality Traits
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Benjamin, Ludy T., Jr.; And Others – Teaching of Psychology, 1984
A review of 33 research studies which examined issues surrounding answer-changing behavior on objective tests indicated that (1) the majority of answer changes are from incorrect to correct, (2) most students who change their answers improve their test scores, and (3) most test-takers change answers. Future research needs are discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Guessing (Tests), Higher Education
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Beggs, W. D. A.; Breslaw, P. I. – Journal of Research in Reading, 1983
Concludes that the measurement of reading ability in the deaf by the Picture Assisted Reading Test is hampered by the strategies used by students attempting to complete the test. (FL)
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Language Processing, Language Proficiency, Reading Ability
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Carifio, James; Biron, Ronald – Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 1982
Describes a simple, confidentiality-preserving, data-collection technique the Context-Determined, Rule-Generated, Pseudonym (CDRGP) Technique, capable of generating correlational data across multiple time-points. Experiments showed that students would respond to alcohol consumption questions using the technique and that no significant response…
Descriptors: Alcoholic Beverages, Behavior Patterns, Confidentiality, Correlation
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Wilcox, Rand R. – Journal of Experimental Education, 1982
A closed sequential procedure for estimating true score is proposed for use with answer-until-correct tests. The accuracy of determining true score is the same as in conventional sequential solutions, but the possibility of using an unnecessarily large number of items is eliminated. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Answer Sheets, Guessing (Tests), Item Banks, Measurement Techniques
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