Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. When I was in school, multiple-choice exams were the backbone of testing. Teachers relied on ...

This paper is the first to structurally model how a test taker answers questions in a multiple choice exam. We allow for the possibility of a penalty for a wrong answer which makes risk averse ...

In an excellent column, Ray Schroeder, senior fellow for the Association of Leaders in Online and Professional Education, laments the tendency for many instructors to rely on text-specific test banks ...

Meandering into the lecture hall, you take note of the atmosphere. The air is still. But for the faint sounds of shuffling pages, trackpad clicks, and anxiety-laced whispering, the room is silent. You ...

A mixture item response model is proposed for investigating individual differences in the selection of response categories in multiple-choice items. The model accounts for local dependence among ...