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URDANETA DURAN, Elsy J.. DO DIFFERENT ITEM FORMATS MEASURE THE SAME CONSTRUCT? A REVIEW OF THE SUBJETC. Paradígma [online]. 2013, vol.34, n.1, pp.069-082. ISSN 1011-2251.

The tests are the instruments used for the measurement of variables of psychological and educational field and the results of these are used for making very important decisions that will affect directly the lives of the examined. This is the reason that their study is of great significance in scientific research. As such, this article presents the findings of the most important studies about the item format in performance tests and their influence on the execution of the task, to investigate whether the different item formats measure achieve the same or, on the contrary, have a differential effect on the behavior of the considered generating skills when facing a test.

Palavras-chave : item format; multiple choice; constructed response.

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