Quantitative Comparisons of Difficulty, Discrimination and Reliability of Machine-Scored Completion Items and Tests (in the MDT Un-Cued Answer-Bank Format) in Contrast with Statistics from Comparable Multiple Choice Questions [electronic resource] : The First Round of Results / Paul S. Anderson and Albert D. Hyers.

Three descriptive statistics (difficulty, discrimination, and reliability) of multiple-choice (MC) test items were compared to those of a new (1980s) format of machine-scored questions. The new method, answer-bank multi-digit testing (MDT), uses alphabetized lists of up to 1,000 alternatives and app...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Anderson, Paul S.
Other Authors:	Hyers, Albert D.
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1991.
Subjects:	College Students. Comparative Testing. Computer Assisted Testing. Correlation. Difficulty Level. Higher Education. Multiple Choice Tests. Scoring. Statistical Significance. Test Reliability. Test Validity.