The Correction for Guessing

G. Kasten Tallmadge
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Evaluation Review, 1982, vol. 6, issue 6, 837-841

Abstract: There are many situations in which the so-called correction for guessing does not fulfill its intended function. One such situation that has received little, if any, attention in the literature occurs when test takers who have nothing to gain from scoring well respond randomly to questions they could have answered correctly had they tried. Under such circumstances, the raw score is likely to underestimate the test takers' true abilities. Applications of the correction for guessing will only exacerbate the problem that already exists. If random responding is more prevalent in the control than in the treatment group, the correction for guessing will inflate treatment-effect estimates that may already be spuriously high.

Date: 1982
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