On varying the difficulty of test items

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On varying the difficulty of test items

This paper discusses the practice of varying the difficulty of test items in educational measurement. An item difficulty framework comprising concepts such as content difficulty, stimulus difficulty, task difficulty and expected response difficulty is introduced. The paper concludes with some suggestions on how to vary the difficulty of test items.

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