Individual Injustice and Guessing in the True-False Examination

Abstract

The author points out the injustice which may be done to an individual by too great reliance upon the neutralizing effect of chance in a True-False examination. In a fifty-item examination a student answered fourteen, thirteen being right, and said that was his limit of knowledge. He was urged to guess at the others, and after doing so his score was zero. A discussion of the work of Kohs and McCall follows, with illustrations. From Psych Bulletin 20:09:00983. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)