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Koplyay, Janos B.; And Others – 1972
The relationship between true ability (operationally defined as the number of items for which the examinee actually knew the correct answer) and the effects of guessing upon observed test variance was investigated. Three basic hypotheses were treated mathematically: there is no functional relationship between true ability and guessing success;…
Descriptors: Guessing (Tests), Predictor Variables, Probability, Scoring