Validity and Reliability of True-False Tests
| Autor: | Benjamin D. Wright, Martin E. Grosse |
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| Rok vydání: | 1985 |
| Předmět: |
Psychometrics
Applied Mathematics media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050401 social sciences methods 050301 education Validity Test validity Response bias Standard deviation Education 0504 sociology Test score Statistics Developmental and Educational Psychology Objective test Simplicity Psychology 0503 education Applied Psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Educational and Psychological Measurement. 45:1-13 |
| ISSN: | 1552-3888 0013-1644 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0013164485451001 |
| Popis: | A model of examinee behavior based on knowledge and random guessing is used to generate hypotheses about how true-false scores work. Although others have expressed reservations about the simplicity and utility of such a model, it leads to informative ideas. The confirmation of six hypotheses forms a network of support for the contention that true-false scores contain an error component (due to guessing) that makes these scores less reliable than those based on 5-choice items. Examinee response style, a propensity to favor the selection of true or false responses when the answer is unknown, can invalidate a total true-false score. When the answer key for items unknown to an examinee is unequally split between those keyed true and false, this interaction produces scores inaccurate by as much as a sample standard deviation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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