Multiple-choice exams: Explanations for student choices

Teaching of Psychology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 136-138

  Wallace, Monica A ^a   Williams, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

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