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Abu-Ghazalah, Rashid M.; Dubins, David N.; Poon, Gregory M. K. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2023
Multiple choice results are inherently probabilistic outcomes, as correct responses reflect a combination of knowledge and guessing, while incorrect responses additionally reflect blunder, a confidently committed mistake. To objectively resolve knowledge from responses in an MC test structure, we evaluated probabilistic models that explicitly…
Descriptors: Guessing (Tests), Multiple Choice Tests, Probability, Models
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Papenberg, Martin; Musch, Jochen – Applied Measurement in Education, 2017
In multiple-choice tests, the quality of distractors may be more important than their number. We therefore examined the joint influence of distractor quality and quantity on test functioning by providing a sample of 5,793 participants with five parallel test sets consisting of items that differed in the number and quality of distractors.…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Test Items, Test Validity, Test Reliability
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Gierl, Mark J.; Lai, Hollis; Pugh, Debra; Touchie, Claire; Boulais, André-Philippe; De Champlain, André – Applied Measurement in Education, 2016
Item development is a time- and resource-intensive process. Automatic item generation integrates cognitive modeling with computer technology to systematically generate test items. To date, however, items generated using cognitive modeling procedures have received limited use in operational testing situations. As a result, the psychometric…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Multiple Choice Tests, Test Items, Item Analysis
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Taylor, Catherine S.; Lee, Yoonsun – Applied Measurement in Education, 2012
This was a study of differential item functioning (DIF) for grades 4, 7, and 10 reading and mathematics items from state criterion-referenced tests. The tests were composed of multiple-choice and constructed-response items. Gender DIF was investigated using POLYSIBTEST and a Rasch procedure. The Rasch procedure flagged more items for DIF than did…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Gender Differences, Reading Tests, Mathematics Tests
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Banks, Kathleen – Applied Measurement in Education, 2012
The purpose of this article is to illustrate a seven-step process for determining whether inferential reading items were more susceptible to cultural bias than literal reading items. The seven-step process was demonstrated using multiple-choice data from the reading portion of a reading/language arts test for fifth and seventh grade Hispanic,…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Test Items, Standardized Tests, Test Bias
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Hogan, Thomas P.; Murphy, Gavin – Applied Measurement in Education, 2007
We determined the recommendations for preparing and scoring constructed-response (CR) test items in 25 sources (textbooks and chapters) on educational and psychological measurement. The project was similar to Haladyna's (2004) analysis for multiple-choice items. We identified 12 recommendations for preparing CR items given by multiple sources,…
Descriptors: Test Items, Scoring, Test Construction, Educational Indicators