A Substantive Process Analysis of Responses to Items from the Multistate Bar Examination

Autor/inn/en	Bonner, Sarah M.; D'Agostino, Jerome V.
Titel	A Substantive Process Analysis of Responses to Items from the Multistate Bar Examination
Quelle	In: Applied Measurement in Education, 25 (2012) 1, S.1-26 (26 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0895-7347
DOI	10.1080/08957347.2012.635472
Schlagwörter	Cognitive Processes; Test Items; Problem Solving; Thinking Skills; Metacognition; Error Patterns; Licensing Examinations (Professions); Protocol Analysis; Scores; Arizona + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Test content; Testaufgabe; Problemlösen; Denkfähigkeit; Meta cognitive ability; Meta-cognition; Metakognitive Fähigkeit; Metakognition; Fehlertyp
Abstract	We investigated examinees' cognitive processes while they solved selected items from the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE), a high-stakes professional certification examination. We focused on ascertaining those mental processes most frequently used by examinees, and the most common types of errors in their thinking. We compared the relationships between different problem-solving processes, errors, and performance, and assessed the degree to which performance was related to correspondence between examinees' and model problem-solving approaches. Participants most commonly solved problems with reference to legal principles and cues presented in problem stems, but also resorted to other mental processes. We found that performance on the MBE is strongly related to domain-specific skill in using legal principles, as well as to domain-general metacognitive skill in organizing thinking. Evidence that would suggest that testwiseness strategies or common-sense reasoning was a source of construct-irrelevant variance on the MBE was not found. Our study demonstrated a systematic method for in-depth analysis of examinee substantive processes on examinations such as the MBE that assess complex reasoning within a specific domain. (Contains 1 figure and 5 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10