This study explored the relationship between multiple choice test construction competence and quality of multiple-choice tests among senior high school teachers in Ghana. In all, 157 were selected from four schools Kwahu-South District. Participants responded to self-designed questionnaire developed assess teachers’ items competencies. A three-factor structure emanated exploratory factor analys...

Abstract In multiple-choice tests, guessing is a source of test error which can be suppressed if its expected score made negative by either penalizing wrong answers or rewarding expressions partial knowledge. Starting from the most general formulation necessary and sufficient scoring conditions for to lead an loss beyond test-taker’s knowledge, we formulate class optimal functions, including pr...