“…Studies have also explored the effects of changing the number of response options on item quality empirically (Baghaeri & Amrahi, 2011;Rodriguez, Kettler, & Elliott, 2014;Schneid, Armour, Park, Rudkowsky, & Bordage, 2014). Using a common-item equating design approach, Baghaeri and Amrahi (2011) found that, with one exception, no significant change was observed in item difficulties, item fit statistics, and reliabilities across three test forms with different numbers of options.…”