A Comparison of Item-Writing Methods for Criterion-Referenced Tests [microform] / Gale Roid and Others
- Bib ID:
- 5386970
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Roid, Gale
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED190604
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1980
- 24 p.
- Summary:
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Using informal, objectives-based, or linguistic methods, three elementary school teachers and three experienced item writers developed criterion-referenced pretests-posttests to accompany a prose passage. Item difficulites were tabulated on the responses of 364 elementary students. The informal-subjective method, used by many achievement test developers, allowed maximum freedom of wording and yielded significantly more difficult items. The objectives-based and linguistic methods, in which the item writer chose the foils (distractors), were susceptible to item writer bias. In contrast, the method which provided maximum control, linguistic-based algorithmic foil method, yielded the items which were easy and not subject to bias. It also created items which were insensitive to the pretest-posttest shift in difficulty. Therefore, algorithmic foil methods are promising because they control item writer differences; more research is needed before reasonable item difficulties and instructional sensitivity can be obtained. Teacher-produced items were more sensitive to instruction than those of experienced writers. It is concluded that item-writer differences are real and that field testing is important to identify these differences. (CP)
- Notes:
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- Sponsoring Agency: Advanced Research Projects Agency (DOD), Washington, DC.
- Contract Number: MDA-903-77-C-0189.
- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the joint Annual Meetings of the American Educational Research Association and the National Council on Measurement in Education (Boston, MA, April 7-11, 1980).
- Educational level discussed: Elementary Education.
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Oregon State System of Higher Education, Monmouth. Teaching Research Div
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- ERIC
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- Publication date:
- 1980
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