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A typical educational test consists of a large number of multiple-choice items. In the construction and pretesting of a test form, particular attention is paid to every item of the form. Each item is screened for a number of possible faults, such as non-existence or non-uniqueness of the correct answer among the response options, use of words or expressions that may have a different connotation or may be more (or less) familiar to an ethnic category of examinees, may require non-elementary knowledge from a different subject area, and the like.
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Longford, N.T. (1995). Summarizing item-level properties. In: Models for Uncertainty in Educational Testing. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8463-2_5
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