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Peer reviewedKolstad, Rosemarie K.; And Others – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1983
A study compared college students' performance on complex multiple-choice tests with scores on multiple true-false clusters. Researchers concluded that the multiple-choice tests did not accurately measure students' knowledge and that cueing and guessing led to grade inflation. (PP)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Difficulty Level, Guessing (Tests), Higher Education
