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Download full textLukhele, Robert; Sireci, Stephen G. – 1995
Free-response (FR) item formats, such as essay questions, are popular in educational assessment. The criticisms against FR items are that they are more expensive to score, take up more testing time, provide less content coverage, and are less reliable than multiple-choice (MC) items. For these reasons, FR items are often combined with MC items.…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Essay Tests, Item Response Theory, Multiple Choice Tests
