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Download full textGreen, Kathy E. – 1983
The purpose of this study was to determine whether item difficulty is significantly affected by language difficulty and response set convergence. Language difficulty was varied by increasing sentence (stem) length, increasing syntactic complexity, and substituting uncommon words for more familiar terms in the item stem. Item wording ranged from…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Item Analysis
