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Download full textBoldt, Robert F. – 1971
One formulation of confidence scoring requires the examinee to indicate as a number his personal probability of the correctness of each alternative in a multiple-choice test. For this formulation, a linear transformation of the logarithm of the correct response is maximized if the examinee reports accurately his personal probability. To equate…
Descriptors: Confidence Testing, Guessing (Tests), Multiple Choice Tests, Probability
