On the risk of certain psychotechnological response options in multiple-choice tests: Does a particular personality handicap examinees?

European Journal of Psychological Assessment

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 302-308

  Kubinger, Klaus D ^a   Wolfsbauer, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Big five personality factors; Guessing phenomenon; Multiple choice test; Psychotechnological response options; Warning instruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956991863     PISSN: 10155759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1015-5759/a000040     Document Type: Article

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