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Showing 1 to 20 of 322 for “"Multiple Choice"”.
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Multiple readings in multiple choice reading tests: A study of year 11 students' reading practices of a multiple choice reading test
… students’ responses to the questions in a multiple choice reading test. An analysis of the processes students used to negotiate meaning revealed the roles played by cognitive strategies and cultural framing in shaping students' responses to multiple choice questions. A …
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Assessing Student Achievement: Multiple-Choice Testing Versus Performance Assessment
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Multiple Choice Question Answering using a Large Corpus of Information
… aspect of learning with the goal of answering multiple choice questions with information from a large corpus of information. I chose this topic because of an internship at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where there is a growing interest in making rovers more autonomous in their field …
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Investigating Fine-Tuning of Language Models for Multiple-Choice Questions
… large language models (LLMs) when used to answer multiple-choice questions (MCQs). Given the increasing use of generative language models in fields ranging from cybersecurity to biomedical research, it is important to understand the causes of their behavior in order to mitigate biases and prevent …
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Maximizing the Potential of Multiple-choice Items for Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment
… information available from the distractors in multiple-choice items used in large-scale achievement assessments and identifies optimal conditions for extracting diagnostic information. The study is based on the analyses of both real student responses and simulated data. The real student …
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Toward automatic generation of multiple-choice questions in an educational context
… answers for the phrase blanked out, making a multiple-choice question out of the sentence. We believe this is a step forward to creating a more enjoyable learning environment for life-long learners and all Internet users.
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Automated Multiple-Choice Question Generation and Analysis for Language Learning Assessment
… areas: evaluating candidate responses, analysing multiple-choice reading comprehension items, and generating assessment questions. The work is situated within the broader aim of improving the efficiency and reliability of standardised assessments through automation. The first area of study …
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A comparison of multiple-choice test response modes and scoring methods
… different response/scoring methods used with multiple-choice tests in an academic setting with students enrolled in a required undergraduate art appreciation course at a medium-sized state university. The number of correct responses, based on a single choice per item, constituted the score on …
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Comparing 12 finite state models of examinee performance on multiple-choice tests
… of the examinee and the observed responses on a multiple-choice test. In finite state modeling, various assumptions about item characteristics and the examinees’ response strategies are made to estimate an examinee ability, and willingness to guess. Twelve sets of plausible assumptions about …
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Finding Relationships Between Multiple-Choice Math Tests and Their Stem-Equivalent Constructed Responses
… test in two different testing formats - Multiple-Choice (MC) and Constructed Response (CR). Many studies have been dedicated to finding correlations between item format characteristics with regards to race and gender. Few studies, however, have attempted to explore differences in the …
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"None of the Above" as an Answer Option in Observatoin Based Multiple-Choice Questions
… A) as an answer option in observation based multiple-choice questions. Previous research has examined only the use of a NOTA option in academic knowledge based testing, not in visual recognition testing. Item difficulty and discrimination were examined for three different item formats: (a) …
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A Hierarchy of Grammatical Difficulty for Japanese EFL Learners: Multiple-Choice Items and Processability Theory
… grammar structures obtained from an analysis of multiple-choice items using a Rasch analysis. The order was compared with the order predicted by processability theory and the order in which the structures appear in junior and senior high school textbooks in Japan. Because processability theory is …
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The Effectiveness of a "None of the Above" Answer Option in Multiple Choice Grammar Tests
… of the above" (NOTA) as an answer option in a multiple-choice grammar test. Results from previous research on this topic have been mixed. Two forms of a grammar test, one without a NOTA option and one with a NOTA option, were developed and administered to a sample of 160 undergraduate students. …
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EFL students' English language knowledge, strategy use and multiple-choice reading test performance: a structural equation modeling approach
… senior high. This reading subtest consists of a multiple-choice format. Studies on language assessment, L2 reading and L1-L2 reading have suggested that EFL students’ performance on multiple-choice reading comprehension tests is attributed to two major factors: English Language Knowledge and …
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Native and nonnative speakers' syntactic knowledge of English dative verbs assessed in grammaticality judgments and multiple choice tests
This thesis investigated speakers' syntactic knowledge of English dative verbs. In Experiment 1, both native speakers of English and Korean learners of English as a second language made grammaticality judgments about dative sentences in English. This part of the thesis reexamined the roles of …
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An investigation of the relationships of test characteristics and personality variables to partial information and misinformation in multiple-choice test scores
… and various score components obtained from a multiple-choice test administered under a response mode proposed by Coombs in 1953. Previous studies using response modes and scoring rules other than the conventional number-right procedures have generally revealed increases in test score …
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Assessing the Validity of Multiple-Choice Questions, Using them to Undertake Comparative Analysis on Student Cohort Performance, and Evaluating the Methodologies Used
Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) have been used in all four first-year Chemistry courses at The University of Adelaide for many years to assess the students both during the semester and within the final examinations. Ensuring that the assessment tasks and the items used within them are a valid …
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Patterns of Lexical Cohesion in a Multiple-Choice Cloze Test: Differences Between English as a Second Language Learners and Native Speakers of American English
Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 69218 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs
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