The purpose of this research was to study the effects of violations of standard multiple-choice item writing principles on test characteristics, student scores, and pass-fail outcomes. Four basic science examinations, administered to year-one and year-two medical students, were randomly selected for study. Test items were classified as either standard or flawed by three independent raters, blin...

nonlinear knapsack problems (nkp) are the alternative formulation for the multiple-choice knapsack problems. a powerful approach for solving nkp is dynamic programming which may obtain the global op-timal solution even in the case of discrete solution space for these problems. despite the power of this solu-tion approach, it computationally performs very slowly when the solution space of the pr...

background: evaluation of multiple-choice questions is a strategic activity and the most effective tool in educational system and improvement. in this study, the quality of some indexes of multiple-choice exams in babol para medical faculty was investigated on the basis of structure and knowledge level distribution in the first semesters of 2007 and 2012. methods: the milman checklist was used ...

This study explored the relationship between multiple choice test construction competence and quality of multiple-choice tests among senior high school teachers in Ghana. In all, 157 were selected from four schools Kwahu-South District. Participants responded to self-designed questionnaire developed assess teachers’ items competencies. A three-factor structure emanated exploratory factor analys...

The aim of the present study was to examine Turkish teacher candidates’ competency levels in writing different types test items by utilizing Rasch analysis. In addition, effect expertise raters scoring written candidates examined within scope study. 84 participated study, which conducted using relational survey model, one quantitative research methods. Three experts rating process: an expert ed...

Multiple choice tests are widely applied to assess students’ knowledge in science education. This study aimed at assessing the validity and reliability of Science Multiple-choice Test Malaysia. The items for this test were formulated by researcher together with a panel teachers head department close reference Secondary School Standard Curriculum (KSSM) syllabus. consists 50 multiple-choice four...

When learning to discriminate between palatable and unpalatable prey, predators may encounter the prey either simultaneously or in a sequence. The two types of discrimination tasks, which are frequently used experiments focused on aposematism mimicry, considerably differ difficulty, as they information available during individual encounters with prey. Surprisingly, there very few studies direct...

listening skill and speaking skill, according language didactics, have close interaction in lingual communications. therefore, measuring listening comprehension without considering other language skills seems to be difficult. the present study is an effort to compare the effectiveness of oral and written multiple-choice listening tests for persian language learners. in fact, this study answers ...

The paper focuses on composing of discrete information units (items) into information complexes in hypertext systems. We consider basic operations (analysis, comparison, approximation, aggregation), combinatorial models (multicriteria ranking, knapsack problem with compatibility of items, multiple choice problem, morphological clique problem). Combinatorial information design on the base of mor...