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The Relationship Between Classified Difficulty And Implausible Distractors In Multiple-Choice Questions, J Alexander Smith, John R. Dickinson
The Relationship Between Classified Difficulty And Implausible Distractors In Multiple-Choice Questions, J Alexander Smith, John R. Dickinson
International Journal for Business Education
Published banks of multiple-choice questions are ubiquitous, the questions in those banks often being classified into levels of difficulty. The specific level of difficulty into which a question is classified might or should be a function of the question’s substance. Possibly, though, insubstantive aspects of the question, such as the incidence of incorrect answers that are readily dismissed, also affect the difficulty level into which a question is classified. The present research investigates the relationship between classified question difficulty and the incidence of implausible incorrect answer options.