Rapid-guessing behavior is consistently very low across demographic subpopulations¶

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q3 i? The amount of rapid-guessing behavior was consistently very low among various demographic subpopulations. → Steven Wise 2013

Evidence¶

Steven Wise 2013¶

Steven Wise, J. Carl Setzer, Jill R. van den Heuvel, Guangming Ling. (2013). An investigation of examinee test-taking effort on a large-scale assessment. Applied Measurement in Education, 26(1), 34–49. https://www.nwea.org/research/publication/an-investigation-of-examinee-test-taking-effort-on-a-large-scale-assessment/

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Subpopulation analyses of the low-stakes instrument found rapid guessing "consistently very low among various demographic subpopulations," indicating no subgroup showed elevated disengagement.

"The amount of rapid-guessing behavior was consistently very low among various demographic subpopulations."

Discussion¶

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