Item-Writing Guidelines on Response Option Placement: A Systematic Review

S Lions, MP Blanco, P Dartnell… - Applied Measurement …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Multiple-choice items are universally used in formal education. Since they should assess
learning, not test-wiseness or guesswork, they must be constructed following the highest …

The role of rapid guessing and test‐taking persistence in modelling test‐taking engagement

G Nagy, E Ulitzsch, MA Lindner - Journal of Computer Assisted …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Item response times in computerized assessments are frequently used to
identify rapid guessing behaviour as a manifestation of response disengagement. However …

Does the response options placement provide clues to the correct answers in multiple-choice tests? A systematic review

S Lions, C Monsalve, P Dartnell… - Applied Measurement …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Multiple-choice tests are widely used in education, often for high-stakes assessment
purposes. Consequently, these tests should be constructed following the highest standards …

Rapid guessing in low-stakes assessments: Finding the optimal response time threshold with random search and genetic algorithm

O Bulut, G Gorgun, T Wongvorachan, B Tan - Algorithms, 2023 - mdpi.com
Rapid guessing is an aberrant response behavior that commonly occurs in low-stakes
assessments with little to no formal consequences for students. Recently, the availability of …

Distractor Analysis in Multiple-Choice Items Using the Rasch Model.

NB Omarov, A Mohammed, AMK Alghurabi… - International Journal of …, 2023 - ERIC
The Multiple-choice (MC) item format is commonly used in educational assessments due to
its economy and effectiveness across a variety of content domains. However, numerous …

The position of distractors in multiple-choice test items: The strongest precede the weakest

S Lions, C Monsalve, P Dartnell, MI Godoy… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Middle bias has been reported for responses to multiple-choice test items used in
educational assessment. It has been claimed that this response bias probably occurs …

EMBRACE: Evaluation and Modifications for Boosting RACE

M Zyrianova, D Kalpakchi, J Boye - arxiv preprint arxiv:2305.08433, 2023 - arxiv.org
When training and evaluating machine reading comprehension models, it is very important
to work with high-quality datasets that are also representative of real-world reading …

Ketepatan Kontruksi Butir Pilihan Ganda Bahasa Arab

M Laili - ALSUNIYAT: Jurnal Penelitian Bahasa, Sastra, Dan …, 2020 - ejournal.upi.edu
The study of construct validity on summative test items in multiple-choice Arabic aims to
improve the test items' quality to make them valid in the construction aspect. The study was …

Practical guidance for writing multiple-choice test questions in introductory analytics courses

SP Stevens, SW Palocsay… - INFORMS Transactions …, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
Test writing is a fundamental component of teaching. With increasing pressure to teach
larger groups of students, conduct formal assessment of learning outcomes, and offer online …

The Effect of Item Form on Estimating Person's Ability, Item Parameters, and Information Function According to Item Response Theory (IRT)

TO ALKursheh, HS Al-zboon - International Journal of Instruction, 2022 - e-iji.net
This study aimed at comparing the effect of two test item formats (multiple-choice and
complete) on estimating person's ability, item parameters and the test information function …