Abstract:When using multiple-choice items in educational testing, the examinee is usually forced to choose exactly one ofthe answer possibilities as the supposedly correct answer. An alternative response mode is to let examinees assign probabilities to each of the answers of the item, corresponding to their belief in the correctness of each answer. In this study student attitudes toward this response mode were investigated, and scoring rules for assessing item scores were compared. It appeared that students had no clea… Show more
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