An investigation of the relationship between the relevance category of achievement test items and their indices of discrimination

It was hypothesized that on an achievement test, items measuring complex cognitive objectives would exhibit a higher mean discrimination index — based on the whole test as criterion — than would an equal number of items measuring less complex cognitive objectives; and that the mean discrimination in...

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Main Author: McKie, Thomas Douglas Muir
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/39012