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Download full textScheuneman, Janice; And Others – 1991
To help increase the understanding of sources of difficulty in test items, a study was undertaken to evaluate the effects of various aspects of prose complexity on the difficulty of achievement test items. The items of interest were those that presented a verbal stimulus followed by a question about the stimulus and a standard set of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Difficulty Level, Goodness of Fit, Knowledge Level
