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AN INVESTIGATION OF THE COGNITIVE CORRELATES OF TEST‐WISENESS 1, 2
Author(s) -
DIAMOND JAMES J.,
EVANS WILLIAM J.
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.tb00771.x
Subject(s) - psychology , cognition , test (biology) , interpretation (philosophy) , subject matter , trait , sample (material) , cognitive psychology , cognitive test , social psychology , developmental psychology , mathematics education , computer science , pedagogy , curriculum , chemistry , paleontology , chromatography , neuroscience , biology , programming language
Gibb (1964) defined test‐wiseness (TW) as the ability to respond advantageously to multiple‐choice items containing extraneous clues and therefore to obtain credit without knowledge of the subject matter being tested. This study investigated TW in a sample of 6th grade pupils. A test instrument was developed utilizing fictitious material similar to the strategy employed by Slakter, Koehler & Hampton (1970). The study examines the cognitive correlates of TW through the interpretation of correlational matrices. The results lend support to the notion that TW is not a general trait, but rather is clue‐specific.