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Peer reviewedBurton, Richard F.; Miller, David J. – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 1999
Discusses statistical procedures for increasing test unreliability due to guessing in multiple choice and true/false tests. Proposes two new measures of test unreliability: one concerned with resolution of defined levels of knowledge and the other with the probability of examinees being incorrectly ranked. Both models are based on the binomial…
Descriptors: Guessing (Tests), Higher Education, Multiple Choice Tests, Objective Tests
