Research Catalog

Title

Writing test items to evaluate higher order thinking / Thomas M. Haladyna.

Author

Haladyna, Thomas M.

Publication

• Boston : Allyn and Bacon, [1997]
• ©1997

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Details

Description

viii, 264 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Here's a book intended to help readers develop better test questions -- aimed at measuring their students' (or future students') higher level thinking abilities such as writing, reading, mathematical or scientific problem solving, critical thinking, and creative thinking. This book is practical in its approach -- replete with examples -- and focuses on many different question types with the main objective being to select the item type most appropriate for the material being measured. It covers multiple-choice items, designing performance test items, creating and scoring portfolios, and writing survey items. Item-writing templates are provided in each chapter.

Subject

• Examinations > Design and construction
• Critical thinking > Evaluation
• Kritisches Denken
• Schultest
• Testkonstruktion

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part 1 Foundations for Item Writing 1 -- 2 What We Measure with Test Items 13 -- 3 Item Formats 35 -- Part 2 Writing Test Items 61 -- 4 Multiple-Choice Formats 63 -- 5 High-Inference Performance Formats 94 -- 5A Writing Items 94 -- 5B Scoring 123 -- 6 Low-Inference Performance Formats 151 -- 7 The Portfolio: Collections of Student Work 177 -- 8 Affective Survey Formats 199 -- Part 3 Evaluating Test Items 221 -- 9 Reviewing Test Items 223 -- 10 Statistical Analysis of Item Responses 237.

ISBN

• 0205178758
• 9780205178759

LCCN

96019255

OCLC

• ocm34591001
• 34591001
• SCSB-2092129

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library