Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ213788
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1979-Jul
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Some Common Flaws in Multiple Choice Exam Questions.
Whitley, Theodore W.
Nursing Outlook, v27 n7 p466-69 Jul 1979
Gives examples of major sources of unreliability in multiple choice items in health professions classroom achievement tests (clues to response combinations, mutually exclusive alternatives, implausible distractors) and offers some suggestions for eliminating them when writing such tests. (MF)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Allied Health Occupations Education, Guessing (Tests), Item Analysis, Medical Education, Multiple Choice Tests, Postsecondary Education, Response Style (Tests), Teacher Developed Materials, Test Construction, Test Items, Test Reliability, Test Validity, Test Wiseness, Testing Problems
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
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Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
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