Automated Scoring of Constructed-Response Science Items: Prospects and Obstacles

Automated Scoring of Constructed-Response Literacy and Mathematics Items

The Development of Constructed Response Astronomy Assessment Items

Concept inventories comprised of multiple choice questions are widely used in physics and astronomy to measure students pre-instruction knowledge and post instruction gains (Hestenes, Wells, & Swackhamer, 1992; Maloney, OKuma, Hieggelke, & Van Heuvelen, 2001, and others). Concept inventories are valuable because they address big ideas in the discipline with which students often struggle. The mu...

on the equivalence of constructed-response and multiple-choice : stem-equivalent, stem non-equivalent but content equivalent, and stem and content non-equivalent items in reading comprehension using multifaceted rasch

the present study investigated construct equivalence of multiple choice (mc) and constructed response (cr) item types across stem and content equivalent mc and cr items (item type ‘a’), non-stem-equivalent but content equivalent mc and cr items (item type ‘b’), and non-stem and non-content equivalent mc and cr items (item type ‘c’). one hundred seventy english-major undergraduates completed mc ...

Extending life: scientific prospects and political obstacles.

Aging can be slowed in laboratory rodents by low-calorie diets, and changes in single genes can extend mouse life span by 40 percent or more. Therefore, despite its surface complexity and effects on multiple cells and intercellular systems, aging in mammals might also be retarded by both genetic and nongenetic means. If human aging could be slowed pharmacologically to the extent now possible in...

Automated scoring of speaking items in an assessment for teachers of English as a Foreign Language

This paper describes an end-to-end prototype system for automated scoring of spoken responses in a novel assessment for teachers of English as a Foreign Language who are not native speakers of English. The 21 speaking items contained in the assessment elicit both restricted and moderately restricted responses, and their aim is to assess the essential speaking skills that English teachers need i...