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Information Removed from Multiple-Choice Item Responses by Selected Grammatical Categories

1968; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 23; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2466/pr0.1968.23.2.613

1558-691X

A. C. Bickley, Wendell W. Weaver, Fraughton G. Ford,

Psychometric Methodologies and Testing

Using a black-out technique, certain grammatical classes of words were deleted from standard reading-test paragraphs and the effects upon multiple-choice item responses examined. The deletion of nouns removed the most information, but many items were answered when the entire paragraph was deleted.