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Calculating the random guess score of multiple-response and matching test items

Calculating the random guess score of multiple-response and matching test items
Calculating the random guess score of multiple-response and matching test items

For achievement tests, the guess score is often used as a baseline for the lowest possible grade for score to grade transformations and setting the cut scores. For test item types such as multiple-response, matching and drag-and-drop, determining the guess score requires more elaborate calculations than the more straightforward calculation of the guess score for True-False and multiple-choice test item formats. For various variants of multiple-response and matching types with respect to dichotomous and polytomous scoring, methods for determining the guess score are presented and illustrated with practical applications. The implications for theory and practice are discussed.

Cut score, Item-writing, MCQs, Multiple-choice questions, Question development, Selected response questions, Selected response test items, Standard setting, Test development
1865-0929
210-222
Springer
Draaijer, Silvester
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Jordan, Sally
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Ogden, Helen
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Draaijer, Silvester
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Jordan, Sally
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Ogden, Helen
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Draaijer, Silvester, Jordan, Sally and Ogden, Helen (2018) Calculating the random guess score of multiple-response and matching test items. In Technology Enhanced Assessment - 20th International Conference, TEA 2017, Revised Selected Papers. vol. 829, Springer. pp. 210-222 . (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-97807-9_16).

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For achievement tests, the guess score is often used as a baseline for the lowest possible grade for score to grade transformations and setting the cut scores. For test item types such as multiple-response, matching and drag-and-drop, determining the guess score requires more elaborate calculations than the more straightforward calculation of the guess score for True-False and multiple-choice test item formats. For various variants of multiple-response and matching types with respect to dichotomous and polytomous scoring, methods for determining the guess score are presented and illustrated with practical applications. The implications for theory and practice are discussed.

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Accepted/In Press date: 4 August 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 18 August 2018
Venue - Dates: 20th International Conference on Technology Enhanced Assessment, TEA 2017, , Barcelona, Spain, 2017-10-05 - 2017-10-06
Keywords: Cut score, Item-writing, MCQs, Multiple-choice questions, Question development, Selected response questions, Selected response test items, Standard setting, Test development

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Local EPrints ID: 425109
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/425109
ISSN: 1865-0929
PURE UUID: 4f5dda1c-b166-408d-a3da-4d7b9d6ac15e
ORCID for Helen Ogden: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-7204-9776

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Date deposited: 10 Oct 2018 16:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 07:05

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Author: Silvester Draaijer
Author: Sally Jordan
Author: Helen Ogden ORCID iD

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