테스트의 문항유형과 대학생 학점의 상관관계 연구

A study of correlations between types of test items and Korean undergraduates" grades

  This study examines the relationships between three types of test items (essay, doze, and true-false type) and Korean undergraduates" grades. The students in this study were divided into two experimental groups mostly majoring in English language teaching in a university in Busan, Korea. The students in group A (N=46) and group B (N=39) were taking a required subject and a selective subject, respectively, and both groups took mid-term and final examinations using three types of test items. The correlations between three item types, total scores, and grades were yielded. Students" grades in group A and group B were produced on the basis of norm-referenced evaluation and criterion-referenced evaluation, respectively, and compared with reference to their correlations. The findings of the study were: (1) there was the highest correlation between doze scores and grades; (2) there was the lowest correlation between true-false scores and grades; and (3) despite a high correlation between the total scores in norm-referenced evaluation and in criterion-referenced evaluation, there was no meaningful corelation between the final grades in both.