Choice among essay topics: Impact on performance and validity

被引：14

作者：

Bridgeman, B

Morgan, R

Wang, MM

机构：

[1] Educational Testing Service, Mail Stop 09-R, Princeton, NJ 08541, Carter and Rosedale Roads

来源：

JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT | 1997年 / 34卷 / 03期

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D O I：

10.1111/j.1745-3984.1997.tb00519.x

中图分类号：

G44 [教育心理学];

学科分类号：

0402 ; 040202 ;

摘要：

This study assessed the ability of history students to choose the essay topic on which they can get the highest score. A second, equally important question was whether the score on the chosen topic was more highly related to other indicators of proficiency in history than the score on the unchosen topic. Overall, for both U.S. and European history, scores were about one third of a standard deviation higher for the preferred topic than for the other topic, For U.S. history, about 32 Cic of the students made the wrong choice; that is, 32% got a higher score on the other topic than on the preferred topic. In European history, 29% made the wrong choice. In the U.S. history sample, the preferred essay correlated .40 with an external criterion score, compared to .34 for the other essay; in the European history sample, the preferred essay correlated .52 with the external criterion, compared to .44 for the other topic.

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页码：273 / 286

页数：14