Multiple-choice items are a mainstay of achievement testing. The need to adequately cover the content domain to certify achievement proficiency by producing meaningful precise scores requires many high-quality items. More 3-option items can be administered than 4or 5-option items per testing time while improving content coverage, without detrimental effects on psychometric quality of test score...

PURPOSE To develop a Critical Thinking Skill Test for Nursing Students. METHODS The construct concepts were drawn from a literature review and in-depth interviews with hospital nurses and surveys were conducted among students (n=607) from nursing colleges. The data were collected from September 13 to November 23, 2012 and analyzed using the SAS program, 9.2 version. The KR 20 coefficient for ...

It is very likely that, at least once in their lifetime, everyone has answered a multiple-choice test. Multiple-choice tests are considered an effective technique for knowledge assessment, requiring a short response time and with the possibility of covering a broad set of topics. Nevertheless, when it comes to their creation, it can be a time-consuming and labour-intensive task. Here, the gener...

When combining item types within assessments, it is important to consider the reliability of scores for each item type and the reliability of composite scores. This study investigated the effect of scoring procedures, section weights, and numbers of items per section on reliability, error variance, and conditional standard errors of measurement, using multivariate generalizability theory techni...

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 present article addresses whether multiple-choice tests may change knowledge even as they attempt to measure it. Overall, taking a multiple-choice test boosts performance on later tests, as compared with non-tested control conditions. This benefit is not limited to simple definitional questions, but holds true for SAT II questions and for items designed to tap concepts at a higher level in ...

Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative Multiple-choice items are used extensively in classroom achievement tests. This explains the importance attributed to understanding how to write these items correctly. Multiple-choice test items may be presented in a question or completion format, with negative, positive, simple or complex sentences, with language that is m...

This study aimed to explore the relationship between language acquisition and grade four senior high school (G4SHS) students’ achievement in English as a foreign language (EFL). To this end the 41-item English Language Acquisition Scale (ELAS) designed by Khodadady and Younesi (2017) was administered to 518 G4SHS students. Also to find the probable relationship between ELAS, its latent variable...