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Direct linkTellinghuisen, Joel; Sulikowski, Michelle M. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2008
Surprising version-dependent differences are noted in student performance on certain questions in a standardized general chemistry exam. The exam in question has two versions, on which both questions and answers are ordered differently. For the questions suspected of answer-order bias, the performance is better in ten of twelve cases when students…
Descriptors: Primacy Effect, Multiple Choice Tests, Test Bias, Standardized Tests
