How important is distractor efficiency for grading Best Answer Questions? [PDF]
BMC Medical Education, 2021 Background Distractor efficiency and the optimum number of functional distractors per item in One Best Answer Questions have been debated. The prevalence of non-functional distractors has led to a reduction in the number of distractors per item with the ...
Thomas Puthiaparampil, Mizanur Rahman
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Item analysis: the impact of distractor efficiency on the difficulty index and discrimination power of multiple-choice items [PDF]
BMC Medical EducationBackground Distractor efficiency (DE) of multiple-choice questions (MCQs) responses is a component of the psychometric analysis used by the examiners to evaluate the distractors’ credibility and functionality.
Assad Ali Rezigalla +8 more
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Distractor Efficiency of an Intermediate English Proficiency Course Final Examination Paper
Asian Journal of Assessment in Teaching and Learning, 2021 Language proficiency tests have adopted various types of items which include multiple-choice questions (MCQ). Designing MCQ needs a longer time to be completed despite being perceived as easy to administer and mark.
Kamarul Ariffin Ahmad +5 more
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What Makes Joint Visual Search Efficient? A Distractor Suppression Account [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesVisual search is thought to operate via a priority map that weights targets against distractors. Any process that modulates the weight assigned to distractors can influence search efficiency. Prior work on joint visual search has examined how distractors
Xinyue Zhang +4 more
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Distractor Efficiency in an Item Pool for a Statistics Classroom Exam: Assessing Its Relation With Item Cognitive Level Classified According to Bloom's Taxonomy. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2018 Multiple-choice items are one of the most commonly used tools for evaluating students' knowledge and skills. A key aspect of this type of assessment is the presence of functioning distractors, i.e., incorrect alternatives intended to be plausible for students with lower achievement.
Testa S, Toscano A, Rosato R.
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When similarity is less disruptive: feature-sharing distractors in visual working memory under diffuse attention [PDF]
Frontiers in CognitionVisual working memory (VWM) is a capacity-limited system that enables visual information to be maintained, prioritized, and used after perceptual input has disappeared.
Jinhua Fu +3 more
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Investigating the effects of acute caffeine administration on visual search, resistance to distraction, and attentional learning [PDF]
Cognitive ResearchThe ability to selectively attend to task-relevant information is central to the performance of a variety of cognitive tasks. Accessible and low-risk pharmacological interventions hold promise with respect to maximizing cognitive performance and ...
Sojung Youn +3 more
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The Impact of Perceptual Load and Distractors’ Perceptual Grouping on Visual Search in ASD [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesThis study examined potential visual search advantages in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and explored the roles of distractor grouping and perceptual load by comparing their performance with that of typically developing (TD) controls ...
Wenyi Shen +3 more
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Reducing the Number of Distractors in Multiple-Choice Questions: A Randomized Study in Undergraduate Medical Education [PDF]
Perspectives on Medical EducationBackground: Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are widely used in medical education due to their efficiency and scalability. However, the quality of distractors plays a critical role in item validity. Evidence suggests that reducing distractors may enhance
Patricia Sunsundegui +9 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) is a cluster of attentional symptoms characterized by slow information processing and behavior, distractibility, mental confusion, absent-mindedness, and hypoactivity.
Yelin Park, Jang-Han Lee
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