This stands in sharp contrast to the sloppy snapshot we get from
multiple choice test data.
Not exact matches
The student component of NELS includes additional outcome
data for the subjects taught by each sampled teacher, including the results from
multiple -
choice achievement
tests.
We were also glad to see the recent expansion of the New York Performance Standards Consortium, which use performance assessments as a means of breaking the monotony of traditional
multiple -
choice tests without losing the critical
data that assessments provide to inform teaching and evaluate performance.
This mastery is often missed when summative (end of course)
multiple choice testing, based primarily on memorization, is the only
data point.
The
choice of
multiple t -
tests for analysis of the outcome
data is considered appropriate, although a simple two - way analysis of variance would have been a better
choice and could have examined simultaneously the effects of the treatments on outcome measures and the differences between pre - and post-treatment measurements.