A comparison of five types of objective tests in elementary psychology

An examination of 100 questions based on the text of Woodworth's Psychology was given in five different forms: the recall or completion test, the five-response, the three-response, and the true-false. The reliability of each form of test was ascertained with uncorrected and corrected scores, as was also the reliability as determined by Brown's formula for tests of twice the length. The recall test did not show as high a reliability as the three- and five-response tests. The exact time for each student on each test was noted; the totals and averages for the groups in each test were obtained. Almost twice as many items per unit of time were answered by the true-false as by the recall.