Fwd: Reminder (asking your personal opinion!).

["Deanna M. De'Liberto" <Ddeliberto@AOL.COM>]

Arie is still in need of responses to this.  Please if you have not yet
responded, please do so now.  Be sure to mention which listserv you received
this message and send the response directly to her, NOT to the list.

Thanks,

Deanna
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• To: AERA-D@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU
• Subject: Reminder (asking your personal opinion!).
• From: Arie Dirkzwager <aried@XS4ALL.NL>
• Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 10:39:57 +0000
• Reply-to: "AERA-D Division D: Measurement and Research Methodology" <AERA-D@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU>
• Sender: "AERA-D Division D: Measurement and Research Methodology" <AERA-D@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU>

Some time ago I kindly requested your help in collecting data to
answer empirically some questions that concern a new objective testing
method called "Multiple Evaluation". I got some replies already but still
not sufficient to compute statistically reliable results. If you didn't
reply yet please do so now - it would be a great help to my research. Your
cooperation will take you only a few minutes, just add your answers on the
following two-item test and reply to "aried@xs4all.nl" (NOT to the whole
list!):

This is a Multiple Evaluation test.
Please answer the following questions by picking one of the seven
options (YES="agree". "NO"="disagree").

1. Multiple Evaluation should be preferred to Multiple Choice.
YES! YES. YES? - NO?
NO. NO!
points if right: 10 9 6 0 6
9 10
points if wrong: -50 -30 -10 0 -10
-30 -50

2. Persons tested are not able to self-assess their probability of
being right.
YES! YES. YES? - NO?
NO. NO!
points if right: 10 9 6 0 6
9 10
points if wrong: -50 -30 -10 0 -10
-30 -50

As usual with tests the test author determined in advance which
answer is
the right one (YES or NO), however when the mean item score over a large
sample of testees is higher when this key is changed it will be changed to
the profit of the testees and the test author has to reconsider his own
opinion on that statement.
Your score is the number of points-if-right minus the number of
points-if-wrong according to the option you chose - if you do not have very
strong arguments for your answer you shouldn't risk losing many points!
I myself did some mathematical analyses and some empirical research
that led me to having a very strong opinion myself, my own answers are both
"!" ones - I wonder if you folks will make me lose many points.

Thanks in advance for your prompt reply!

Arie
BetterSystems,
Prof.Dr.A.Dirkzwager,
Educational Instrumentation Technology,
Computers in Education.
Huizerweg 62,
1402 AE Bussum,
The Netherlands.
voice: x31-35-6981676
FAX: x31-35-6930762
E-mail: aried@xs4all.nl

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