New Guidelines for Developing Multiple-Choice Items
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Guidelines based on validity criteria for the development of multiple choice items.
BACKGROUND Many different guidelines have been presented for the construction of multiple choice items. Those guidelines have been based on the observation of errors when constructing items but not on any clear scientific criterion. Our main objective was to draw up guidelines for the development of multiple choice items based on validity criteria. METHOD We used the properties of adjustment,...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Methodology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1614-1881,1614-2241
DOI: 10.1027/1614-2241.2.2.65