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The Comparative Validities of Three Scoring Systems Applied to An Objective Achievement Examination in Chemistry

Roy A. Holmes

Riverside Unified School District

Joan J. Michael

California State University, Long Beach

William B. Michael

University of Southern California

For a sample of 67 university students in an upper division course in organic chemistry for nonmajors, a probabilistic scoring method applied to a 72-item standardized multiple-choice examination in which each question was answered by every student yielded a validity coefficient at least equal to as well as an estimate of reliability higher than the corresponding indices associated with two traditional scoring formulas.

Educational and Psychological Measurement, Vol. 34, No. 2, 387-389 (1974)
DOI: 10.1177/001316447403400223
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