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Positive and Negative Multiple Choice Items: How Different Are They?

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Tamir, Pinchas – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1993

The performance of 254 Israeli twelfth graders on multiple-choice tests with positive or negative item stems was studied. For items requiring low cognitive reasoning, performance does not differ, but, for items requiring high cognitive reasoning, the negative mode is more difficult. Implications for test construction are discussed. (SLD)

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