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P68T · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

Why should tests include items from a variety of difficulty levels?

a. Students are less likely to guess when there is a wide range of item difficulty.
b. Good tests encourage students to do their best and a range of difficulty helps less confident students.
c. Good tests discriminate at a variety of difficulty levels.
d. Students like to have some easy items because they are more likely to respond correctly by chance.

Question 2

Which of the following tests makes no assumption about the meaning of test responses, but instead, relies on empirical research?

a. TAT
b. MMPI
c. 16PF
d. CPI