Comparing Item Performance on Three- Versus Four-Option Multiple Choice Questions in a Veterinary Toxicology Course
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comparing reliability and item difficulty of multiple-choice and translation questions on a test of grammatical knowledge
multiple-choice questions are commonly employed for testing languageknowledge. however, since in the recently proposed systematic approach toitem writing, using various item formats is desirable and there is very fewresearches on the possibility of using translation items for giving variety toitems on a test. the present study aims at comparing reliability and itemdifficulty of translation and ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Veterinary Sciences
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2306-7381
DOI: 10.3390/vetsci5020055