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Direct linkAllen, Nancy L.; Holland, Paul W.; Thayer, Dorothy T. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2005
Allowing students to choose the question(s) that they will answer from among several possible alternatives is often viewed as a mechanism for increasing fairness in certain types of assessments. The fairness of optional topic choice is not a universally accepted fact, however, and various studies have been done to assess this question. We examine…
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