Can We Identify Guessing in Student Response Patterns? A Preliminary Analysis of a Field Trial Design

Chris Freeman

Can We Identify Guessing in Student Response Patterns? A Preliminary Analysis of a Field Trial Design

Chris Freeman

Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)

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Abstract

This research is grounded in the intersecting theoretical frameworks of validity of assessments (Messick, 1989), and the use of Item Response Theory (IRT) to analyse and report student achievement tests. The research questions seek to investigate the use of data from those assessments and in particular cases where guessing is an acknowledged and in some cases encouraged in student response strategies in multiple choice tests.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - Sept 2015
Event	European Conference on Educational Research - Duration: 1 Sept 2015 → …

Conference

Conference	European Conference on Educational Research
Period	1/09/15 → …

Keywords

Assessments
Field trial design
Guessing
Item response theory
Student response patterns
Validity

Disciplines

Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
Science and Mathematics Education

Access to Document

http://www.eera-ecer.de/ecer-programmes/conference/20/contribution/35334/

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