Developing tests and questionnaires for a national assessment of educational achievement

Authors

Prue Anderson, Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)Follow
George Morgan

Publication Date

2008

Subjects

Academic achievement, Educational testing, Evaluation, Examiners, Pretesting, Questionnaires, Test construction, Testing

Abstract

This book addresses the design of two types of data collection instruments: student achievement tests and background questionnaires. Part 1 covers the development of an assessment framework and a test blueprint, item writing, pretesting, and final test layout. Part 2 delineates comparable stages and activities in the construction of background questionnaires, which are used to gather information from students, teachers, head teachers, or parents on variables that might help explain differences in student performance on the achievement test. Part 3 describes how to design a manual for test administration to help ensure that all students take the test under standardised conditions.

Recommended Citation

Anderson, P., & Morgan, G. (2008). Developing tests and questionnaires for a national assessment of educational achievement. World Bank. https://doi.org/10.1596/978-0-8213-7497-9

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Copyright Statement

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Place of Publication

Washington, DC.

Publisher

World Bank

ISBN

978-0-8213-7497-9

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1596/978-0-8213-7497-9