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Developing and validating multiple-choice test items

Author: Thomas M Haladyna
Publisher: Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004.
Edition/Format: Book : English : 3rd edView all editions and formats
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This book is intended for anyone who is seriously interested in designing and validating multiple-choice test items that measure understanding and the application of knowledge and skills to complex situations, such as critical thinking and problem solving. This edition has been extensively revised to include: more information about writing items that match content standards; more information about creating item pools  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Thomas M Haladyna
ISBN: 0805846611 9780805846614
OCLC Number: 52728932
Description: xi, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction -- I. A foundation for multiple-choice testing. 1. The importance of item development for validity -- 2. Content and cognitive processes -- 3. Item formats -- II. Developing MC test items. 4. MC formats -- 5. Guidelines for developing MC items -- 6. A casebook of exemplary items and innovative item formats -- 7. Item generation -- III. Validity evidence arising from item development and item response validation. 8. Validity evidence coming from item development procedures -- 9. Validity evidence coming from statistical study of item responses -- 10. Using item response patterns to study specific problems -- IV. The future of item development and item response validation. 11. New directions in item writing and item response validation -- References -- Author index -- Subject index.
Responsibility: Thomas M. Haladyna.
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Abstract:

This book is intended for anyone who is seriously interested in designing and validating multiple-choice test items that measure understanding and the application of knowledge and skills to complex situations, such as critical thinking and problem solving. This edition has been extensively revised to include: more information about writing items that match content standards; more information about creating item pools and item banking; a new set of item-writing rules (with examples) in chapter 5, as well as guidelines for other multiple-choice formats; hundreds of examples including an expanded chapter 4 devoted to exemplary item formats and a new chapter 6 containing exemplary items (with author annotations); a chapter on item generation featuring item modeling and other procedures that speed up item development; and a more extensive set of references to past and current work in the area of multiple-choice item writing and validation. The book will be of interest to anyone who develops test items for large-scale assessments, as well as teachers and graduate students who desire the most comprehensive and authoritative information on the design and validation of multiple-choice test items.

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