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Do Items With Paired Response Options Elicit Successful Guessing Behavior on High-Stakes Licensure Examinations?
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Kane, Joanne; Chen, Juan; Ripkey, Douglas R. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
We explore whether the item characteristics of four-response multiple-choice questions with "paired" (non-independent) response options differ from those with unpaired response options in an operational licensure exam in terms of guessing behavior. Our analyses suggest that they do not. We discuss conditions where response pairing might…
Descriptors: Test Items, Multiple Choice Tests, Licensing Examinations (Professions), Guessing (Tests)