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Week 5 Chpt.5 Creating Tests
Week 5 Chpt.5 Creating Tests
Ninth Edition
Chapter
Writing and
Evaluating Test
Items
• https://www.politicalcompass.org/test
Problem Description
Negative Options Whenever possible, response options should exclude negatives such
as “not”
Clues to the Test writers sometimes inadvertently provide clues by using vague
Correct Answer terms such as might, may, and can. Particularly in the social sciences
where certainty is rare, vague terms may signal that the option is
correct.
Heterogeneous The correct option and all of the distractors should be in the same
Options general category.