“…Second, clustering of items around a common task is known to lead to some level of response dependency (Ferrara, Huynh, & Baghi, 1992;Yen, 1992). Response dependency has also been noted for multiple-choice items based on a common reading passage (Green & Langhorst, 1986;Hanna & Oaster, 1980;Nicholas & Brookshire, 1987;Scherich & Hanna, 1977).…”