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Peer reviewedWilcox, Rand R.; Wilcox, Karen Thompson – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1988
Use of latent class models to examine strategies that examinees (92 college students) use for a specific task is illustrated, via a multiple-choice test of spatial ability. Under an answer-until-correct scoring procedure, models representing an improvement over simplistic random guessing are proposed. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Decision Making, Guessing (Tests), Multiple Choice Tests
Download full textGarcia-Perez, Miguel A.; Frary, Robert B. – 1991
A new approach to the development of the item characteristic curve (ICC), which expresses the functional relationship between the level of performance on a given task and an independent variable that is relevant to the task, is presented. The approach focuses on knowledge states, decision processes, and other circumstances underlying responses to…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Equations (Mathematics), Graphs, Guessing (Tests)
