Difficulty Index, Discrimination Index and Distractor Efficiency in Multiple Choice Questions [PDF]
, 2018 Objective: Our first objective was to evaluate the quality of MCQs by analyzing difficulty index, discrimination index and distractor efficiency. Our second objective was to find out the association of MCQs having good difficulty and discrimination ...
Hassan, Usman +6 more
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Cogent Education, 2017 Item analysis is essential in improving items which will be used again in later tests; it can also be used to eliminate misleading items in a test. The study focused on item and test quality and explored the relationship between difficulty index (p-value)
Kennedy Quaigrain, Ato Kwamina Arhin
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Useful distracting information: ERP correlates of distractors in stimulus-response-episodes. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 A basic process in regulating behavior that helps us to disentangle meaningful from distracting information is the binding of stimulus and response features into stimulus-response episodes or "event files".
Lea Donata Priester, Daniel Wiswede
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Identity negative priming: a phenomenon of perception, recognition or selection? [PDF]
, 2012 The present study addresses the problem whether negative priming (NP) is due to information processing in perception, recognition or selection. We argue that most NP studies confound priming and perceptual similarity of prime-probe episodes and implement
Ihrke, Matthias +20 more
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Does high state anxiety exacerbate distractor interference? [PDF]
, 2021 Attentional Control Theory states that anxiety can cause attention to be allocated to irrelevant sources of information by hindering the ability to control attention and focus on the information that matters. In a separate line of inquiry, action-centred
Lawrence, GP +7 more
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Enhancing Biochemistry Assessments: Our Experience with MCQ Validation in Punjab [PDF]
Indian Journal of Medical BiochemistryBackground and aim: Item analysis of multiple-choice questions (MCQs) is a widely accepted method to ensure their quality and effectiveness. Key indices used in this process include the difficulty index (DIF I), discrimination index (DI), and distractor ...
Shalini Gupta +4 more
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ITEM ANALYSIS OF MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS: AN ASSESSMENT OF YOUNG LEARNERS
English Review: Journal of English Education, 2022 Although English has been taught for decades in Indonesia, the quality of multiple-choice question given to young learners was hardly examined. To touch on the issue, this study aims at determining the quality of 10 multiple-choice questions (MCQs) in a ...
Maya Marsevani
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Distractor-Period Unconscious Cognitive Processing in Associative Learning
, 2018 Past research has demonstrated unconscious cognitive processing of information relevant to complex decision making during an unrelated distractor task.
James K. Bursley (2634733)
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Learning to suppress likely distractor locations in visual search is driven by the local distractor frequency [PDF]
, 2022 Salient but task-irrelevant distractors interfere less with visual search when they appear in a display region where distractors have appeared more frequently in the past (‘distractor-location probability cueing’).
Shi, Zhuanghua +7 more
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Display Size and Distractor Complexity Effects on Visual Search
, 2021 The proliferation of higher quality connected sensors is consistently increasing the amount of information available to operators, increasing the complexity of displayed information.
Marsh, Justin R. +7 more
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