Complement or Contamination: A Study of the Validity of Multiple-Choice Items when Assessing Reasoning Skills in Physics

The purpose of this study is to investigate the validity of using multiple-choice (MC) items as a complement to constructed-response (CR) items when making decisions about student performance on reasoning tasks. CR items from a national test in physics have been reformulated into MC items and studen...

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Main Authors: Anders Jönsson, David Rosenlund, Fredrik Alvén
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Education
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feduc.2017.00048/full