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INCREASING TEST RELIABILITY THROUGH SELF‐SCORING PROCEDURES
Author(s) -
GILMAN DAVID ALAN,
FERRY PAULA
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.tb00953.x
Subject(s) - reliability (semiconductor) , test (biology) , scoring system , multiple choice , statistics , psychology , medicine , mathematics , significant difference , paleontology , power (physics) , physics , surgery , quantum mechanics , biology
Fifty‐four graduate students were administered a 66 item four‐response multiple choice test on self‐scoring tests forms. Each test was scored by the traditional right‐wrong method of scoring tests and was also scored by the self‐scoring method of counting the number of responses necessary to respond to all items correctly. Results indicate that scoring tests by the self‐scoring method can result in a higher split half reliability than tests scored by the traditional right‐wrong method.