Verbosity, window dressing, and red herrings: Do they make a better test item?

Academic Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 10, 1996, Pages s28-s30

  Case, Susan M ^a   Swanson, David B ^a   Becker, Douglas F ^a  

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CONFERENCE PAPER; LICENSING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029973898     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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