Exam 6: Writing and Evaluating Test Items

When teachers are initially told that the students they will be teaching are either not very imaginative or are very imaginative,ratings using an adjective checklist will tend to reflect this original assessment.This is an example of

The proportion of test takers that get a "good" item correct increases as a function of the

Which of the following is true of the characteristic curve for a "good" test item?

An item characteristic curve that rises gradually and then turns down for people at the highest levels of performance

The extreme group method and the point biserial method are both used to estimate

Exhibit 6-1 -Refer to Exhibit 6-1.Which item is unrelated to total test score performance?

In the extreme group method of item analysis,

Suppose that you are taking a multiple choice test where there is no correction for guessing.If you aren't sure of the answer,

The least frequent score in a frequency polygon is the

In order to evaluate a criterion referenced test,the test was administered to a group of students who had studied a learning unit and to another group who had not studied the learning unit.For each item on the test,the criterion for mastery would be

When distractors are likely to be selected as alternative responses on multiple-choice tests,

In experimental psychology,the proportion of the top third of the class that correctly answered the last question of the final was .93 while .89 of the bottom third of the class answered correctly.The professor should decide not to include this question in the next final because the discrimination index indicates

As the proportion of people who get an item on a test correct increases,the measure of item difficulty

How do Likert format tests differ from tests made of dichotomous and polytomous items?

Why have checklists fallen out of favor?

The following is an item from an attitude scale: Physical punishment is essential in order to control children. Strongly disagree Disagree Neither agree or disagree Agree Strongly agree This item is in the

The method of item analysis which looks at the correlation between performance on an item (correct or incorrect)and total test score is

Which item format can best be factor analyzed to find which ones group together?

The optimal item difficulty of a six-alternative test is

A test format that is typically used for attitude measurement is the