Guess Where: The Position of Correct Answers in Multiple-Choice Test Items as a Psychometric Variable

By Yigal Attali, M. Bar-Hillel. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Statistics and Probability

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Developing, Analyzing, and Using Distractors for Multiple-Choice Tests in Education: A Comprehensive Review (2017, background): “…Mosier & Price, 1945; Tellinghuisen & Sulikowski, 2008), whereas the other have evaluated the effects of altering the position of the correct answer relative to the positions of distractors (e.g., Attali & Bar-Hillel, 2003; Bresnoc, Graves, & White, 1989; Cizek, 1994; McNamara & Weitzman, 1945).”
A model of choice from lists (2006, background): “Attali and Bar-Hillel (2003) investigated a similar question in the context of multiple choice tests.”
Misinformed About the Affordable Care Act? Leveraging Certainty to Assess the Prevalence of Misperceptions (2015, unknown): “Moreover, much past research shows that guessing is often biased (Attali & Bar-Hillel, 2003).”
Modeling Student Test-Taking Motivation in the Context of an Adaptive Achievement Test. (2016, background): “Second, it has been found that test takers do not actually guess randomly, but instead tend to choose middle options more frequently (Attali & Bar-Hillel, 2003).”
GQA: A New Dataset for Real-World Visual Reasoning and Compositional Question Answering (2019, background): “In the absence of other information, making an educated guess is a legitimate choice – a valid and beneficial strategy pursued by machines and people alike [24, 6, 23].”
Teacher formative assessment and talk in classroom contexts: assessment as discourse and assessment of discourse (2004, background): “Attali and Bar-Hillel (2001), who relate this distinction to issues of bias in multiple-choice tests, discuss how students under time pressure towards the end of a test give up trying to choose the correct answer and adopt a strategy of arbitrary guessing by picking a single answer position to mark…”