Quantifying the effects of chance in multiple choice and true/false tests: Question selection and guessing of answers

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 41-50

  Burton, Richard F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0001917199     PISSN: 02602938     EISSN: 1469297X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02602930020022273     Document Type: Article

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