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Daniel M. Bolt, Allan S. Cohen, James A. Wollack, A Mixture Item Response Model for Multiple-Choice Data, Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, Vol. 26 ...
Multiple-Choice Testing in Education: Are the Best Practices for Assessment Also Good for Learning? Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 2018; 7 (3): 323 DOI: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2018 ...
In “Moving Beyond Multiple Choice Items for Effective Classroom Assessment”, Dr. Adisack Nhouyvanisvong will outline item writing guidelines, methods for assessing student knowledge beyond multiple ...
This paper describes an item response model for multiple-choice items and illustrates its application in item analysis. The model provides parametric and graphical summaries of the performance of each ...
Instructors can upgrade -- or, better yet, bypass -- conventional test-bank multiple-choice items. In doing so, we simultaneously increase the relevance of these assessments and promote academic ...
Yet even when I assigned multiple choice practice in college entrance test prep classes, I advised students to work through each question with the choices covered up, and then compare their answer ...
Ideally, multiple-choice exams would be random, without patterns of right or wrong answers. However, all tests are written by humans, and human nature makes it impossible for any test to be truly ...
Multiple-choice tests and quizzes are an effective tool for: a) assessing a student's mastery of facts and concepts; b) helping students learn and retain facts and concepts.