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- Title
Deciding Whether to Respond: An Analysis of Nonresponse on Ontario's Grade 9 Assessment of Mathematics.
- Authors
Childs, Ruth A.; Broomes, Orlena; Herbert, Monique B.
- Abstract
This study investigates nonresponse on Ontario's Grade 9 Assessment of Mathematics-in particular, whether or not students responded to all multiple-choice or all open-response items in two test booklets. Whether students responded to all items of one type (multiple-choice or open-response) by booklet (for the first or second day of testing) was modeled, with and without proportion correct scores by item type as covariates, using latent class analysis. Both a 3-class model without the covariates and a 4-class model with the covariates but without direct effects distinguished among students who responded to all items, students who left both multiple-choice and open-response items blank, and students who left only open-response items blank. The results suggest that deciding to respond to all open-response items is distinct from deciding to respond to all multiple-choice items. Attitudes toward mathematics were also more related to the decision to respond to all open-response items than to the decision to respond to all multiplechoice items.
- Subjects
MATHEMATICS examinations, questions, etc.; NONRESPONSE (Statistics); NINTH grade (Education); LATENT class analysis (Statistics); MATHEMATICS education
- Publication
Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2018, Vol 64, Issue 1, p70
- ISSN
0002-4805
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.55016/ojs/ajer.v64i1.56472