In the past decade there has been an increasing interest in noncognitive skills, or what are
sometimes called soft skills, character skills, social-emotional skills, self-management skills …

This study examined the writing score and writing feature changes of 562 repeat test takers
who took the Canadian English Language Proficiency Index Program–General (CELPIP …

The purpose of credentialing is to assure the public that individuals who practice an
occupation or professionl have met certain standards (American Educational Research …

In 2009, the College Board instituted a policy known as Score Choice, which gives college
applicants the option to only release SAT scores from selected administrations. This has …

Conventional methods for evaluating the utility of subscores rely on traditional indices of
reliability and on correlations among subscores. One limitation of correlational methods is …

A physicist is in a sporting goods store, looking at bicycles, as an employee approaches:
Employee “Do you have any questions?” Physicist “No, I already know a lot about bicycles.” …

Purpose Previous studies on standardized patient (SP) exams reported score gains both
across attempts when examinees failed and retook the exam and over multiple SP …

This study evaluated the extent to which medical students with limited English-language
experience are differentially impacted by the additional reading load of test items consisting …

This paper addresses learning effectiveness under conditions in which questions and
answers are disclosed in adaptive online testing. Even when complete response matrices …

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate various analytical means to detect
academic cheating in an experimental setting. The omega index was compared and …