A Survey on Distractors in Multiple-choice Questions and its Relationship on Difficulty and Discriminative Indices

A Survey on Distractors in Multiple-choice Questions and its Relationship on Difficulty and Discriminative Indices

Introduction: The distractors have a very important role in Multiple-Choice Question (MCQ) and it can influence the quality of the tests. This study aimed to investigate frequency of functioning and non-functioning distractors and the relationship between the distractors options with difficulty and...

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Main Author:	Abdolhussein Shakurnia
Format:	Article
Language:	fas
Published:	Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Medical Education Development Center 2019-04-01
Series:	مجله ایرانی آموزش در علوم پزشکی
Subjects:	student assessment multiple-choice questions distractors functioning distractors non-functioning distractors difficulty index discriminative index
Online Access:	http://ijme.mui.ac.ir/article-1-4776-en.pdf

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