In Flanders, open admission into higher education has led to heterogeneity in academic preparedness of incoming STEM students. Higher institutions offer low stakes positioning tests these students order help them assess their level starting competences. Due the unique nature tests, little can be inferred about students’ perception tests. this study, we used mixed methods investigate perceptions...

Multiple-choice questions are frequently used in high-stakes nursing assessments. Many nurse educators, however, lack the necessary knowledge and training to develop these tests. The authors discuss test development guidelines to help nurse educators produce valid and reliable multiple-choice assessments.

this study aimed at investigating differential item functioning (dif) on the special english test of the iranian national university entrance exam (inuee). the effect of gender and subject area was taken into account. the study utilized one-parameter irt model with a sample of 36000 students who sat for the inuee special english test in 2004 and/or 2005. the findings confirmed the presence of d...

Risk aversion and temporal discounting are preferences that are strongly linked to sub-optimal financial and health decision making ability. Prior studies have shown they differ by age and cognitive ability, but it remains unclear whether differences are due to age-related cognitive decline or lower cognitive abilities over the life span. We tested the hypothesis that cognitive decline is assoc...

The authors review criticisms commonly leveled against cognitively loaded tests used for employment and higher education admissions decisions, with a focus on large-scale databases and meta-analytic evidence. They conclude that (a) tests of developed abilities are generally valid for their intended uses in predicting a wide variety of aspects of short-term and long-term academic and job perform...

Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, paper-based delivery of National Benchmark Tests (NBTs) was not possible during 2020 testing cycle. The NBTs, being a large-scale national assessment project, did have alternative options, other than offer tests online. Moving these high-stakes online meant that certain considerations had be considered retain credibility and security tests, without compromising v...