Cumulative scoring of exercises in ascending difficulty yields a combined measure of rate and power, unlike last-exercise-solved power scoring¶

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q1 i? Arranging exercises in ascending order of difficulty and scoring by cumulative values of correctly solved exercises measures both rate of work and difficulty solved, whereas scoring by the last exercise solved correctly places the test in the class of power tests. → Greene 1928

Evidence¶

Greene 1928¶

Greene, H. A. (1928). Tests for the Measurement of Certain Phases of Linguistic Organization in Sentences. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://psycnet.apa.org

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The author's methodological argument about the test's scoring design, presented as reasoning rather than an empirical comparison. The article states the cumulative score "gives a measure of the rate of work as well as the difficulty of the exercises solved correctly", contrasting with last-exercise-solved scoring.

"the use of the cumulative score gives a measure of the rate of work as well as the difficulty of the exercises solved correctly. That is, the arrangement makes possible a combined measure of both rate and power."

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