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Abu-Ghazalah, Rashid M.; Dubins, David N.; Poon, Gregory M. K. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2023
Multiple choice results are inherently probabilistic outcomes, as correct responses reflect a combination of knowledge and guessing, while incorrect responses additionally reflect blunder, a confidently committed mistake. To objectively resolve knowledge from responses in an MC test structure, we evaluated probabilistic models that explicitly…
Descriptors: Guessing (Tests), Multiple Choice Tests, Probability, Models
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Kinoshita, Sachiko; De Wit, Bianca; Norris, Dennis – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
In 2 variants of the color-word Stroop task, we compared 5 types of color-neutral distractors--real words (e.g., "HAT"), pseudowords (e.g., "HIX"), consonant strings (e.g., "HDK"), symbol strings (e.g., #$%), and a row of Xs (e.g., "XXX")--as well as incongruent color words (e.g., "GREEN" displayed…
Descriptors: Color, Interference (Learning), Reaction Time, Visual Stimuli