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SELECTION OF PROSE MATERIAL FOR TESTING
Author(s) -
JENKINS JOSEPH R.,
BAUSELL R. BARKER,
MAGOON A. JON
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
journal of educational measurement
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.917
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1745-3984
pISSN - 0022-0655
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-3984.1972.tb00764.x
Subject(s) - selection (genetic algorithm) , psychology , test (biology) , personnel selection , word (group theory) , natural language processing , mathematics education , linguistics , computer science , statistics , artificial intelligence , mathematics , philosophy , paleontology , biology
The study investigated teachers' selection of prose material for testing. Thirty elementary school social studies teachers wrote test questions based on a 1900 word passage from a commercial social studies text. Moderate consensus was observed among the teachers as to those segments of the passage chosen for testing. Additional analyses to determine the characteristics of the passage segments selected for testing were performed. The most frequently selected text segments were sentences which either contained a list or were themselves an entry in a list.