Position of Correct Option and Distractors Impacts Responses to Multiple-Choice Items: Evidence From a National Test.

ABSTRACT: Even though the impact of the position of response options on answers to multiple-choice items has been investigated for decades, it remains debated. Research on this topic is inconclusive, perhaps because too few studies have obtained experimental data from large-sized samples in a real-world context and have manipulated the position of both correct response and distractors. Since multiple-choice tests' outcomes can be strikingly consequential and option position effects constitute a potential source of measurement error, these effects should be clarified. In this study, two experiments in which the position of correct response and distractors was carefully manipulated were performed within a Chilean national high-stakes standardized test, responded by 195,715 examinees. Results show smal

SUBMITTER: Lions S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10470158 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature