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Download full textLivingston, Samuel A. – 1986
This paper deals with test fairness regarding a test consisting of two parts: (1) a "common" section, taken by all students; and (2) a "variable" section, in which some students may answer a different set of questions from other students. For example, a test taken by several thousand students each year contains a common multiple-choice portion and…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Error of Measurement, Essay Tests, Mathematical Models
Donlon, Thomas F.; Fitzpatrick, Anne R. – 1978
On the basis of past research efforts to improve multiple-choice test information through differential weighting of responses to wrong answers (distractors), two statistical indices are developed. Each describes the properties of response distributions across the options of an item. Jaspen's polyserial generalization of the biserial correlation…
Descriptors: Confidence Testing, Difficulty Level, Guessing (Tests), High Schools
