Abstract
We compared the psychometrics of quiz questions randomly selected from a test bank with the psychometrics of quiz questions the instructor had selected from the bank for quality and modified (if necessary). On multiple psychometric indices, the instructor selected/modified questions were superior to questions randomly selected from the test bank. Most notably, when compared with instructor written/modified questions, randomly selected bank questions were nearly 6.5 times more likely to contain a distractor that drew more responses than the correct answer. Details and implications are discussed.
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Richman, H., & Hrezo, M. (2017). The Trouble with Test Banks. Perspectives In Learning, 16 (1). Retrieved from https://csuepress.columbusstate.edu/pil/vol16/iss1/2
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