The biothesiometer tip was held with uniform pressure at two sites: the most prominent point of the medial malleolus and the medial femoral condyle (same location as that for testing perception of touch).
As test perceptions can affect people's attitudes [ 43, 65] further research should investigate whether specific scenario types are associated with low acceptability, and whether this in turn is associated with SJT performance.
Hence, we decided to test perception of our stimuli in the last participants recruited into the study.
Consequently, scores for these six items were summed for each participant to create an overall test perception score.
Using Marginal Homogeneity test, perception of norm, preference, and perception of current practice were compared for MR and TR; and MR and TR were compared in relation to perception of norm, preference, and perception of current practice.
In addition, obstetric history, previous experience with prenatal screening tests, perception of risk of Down syndrome and personal experience with individuals who have disabilities such as Down syndrome will be compared between arms of the trial.
To test perception skills more purely, ruling out word knowledge, we used pseudowords in a task similar to the VCV discrimination task (e.g., ) used by Adlard and Hazan (1998).
What types of test items induce gaps between test-taker perceptions and test committee intentions? .
What types of test items induce gaps between test-taker perceptions and test committee intentions?
An item that induced a large gap between test committee intentions and test-taker perceptions was Item 34 in the NUCEE (Fig. 1).
A questionnaire survey was conducted to elicit the test-takers' perceptions of the skills measured by the test.
