Assessing vocabulary size through multiple-choice formats: issues with guessing and sampling rates

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Assessing vocabulary size through multiple-choice formats: issues with guessing and sampling rates

In most tests of vocabulary size, knowledge is assessed through multiple-choice formats. Despite advantages such as ease of scoring, multiple-choice tests (MCT) are accompanied with problems. One of the more central issues has to do with guessing and the presence of other construct-irrelevant strate...

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Main Authors:	Gyllstad, Henrik, Vilkaitė, Laura, Schmitt, Norbert
Format:	Article
Published:	John Benjamins Publishing 2015
Subjects:	Vocabulary Size Multiple-Choice Test Guessing Sampling Rate Assessment Validation Testing Criterion-Related Validity
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32284/

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