score.multiple.choice: Score multiple choice items and provide basic test statistics

In psych: Procedures for Psychological, Psychometric, and Personality Research

Score multiple choice items and provide basic test statistics

Description

Ability tests are typically multiple choice with one right answer. score.multiple.choice takes a scoring key and a data matrix (or data.frame) and finds total or average number right for each participant. Basic test statistics (alpha, average r, item means, item-whole correlations) are also reported.

Usage

score.multiple.choice(key, data, score = TRUE, totals = FALSE, ilabels = NULL, 
      missing = TRUE, impute = "median", digits = 2,short=TRUE,skew=FALSE)

Arguments

key	A vector of the correct item alternatives
data	a matrix or data frame of items to be scored.
score	score=FALSE, just convert to right (1) or wrong (0). score=TRUE, find the totals or average scores and do item analysis
totals	total=FALSE: find the average number correct total=TRUE: find the total number correct
ilabels	item labels
missing	missing=TRUE: missing values are replaced with means or medians missing=FALSE missing values are not scored
impute	impute="median", replace missing items with the median score impute="mean": replace missing values with the item mean
digits	How many digits of output
short	short=TRUE, just report the item statistics, short=FALSE, report item statistics and subject scores as well
skew	Should the skews and kurtosi of the raw data be reported? Defaults to FALSE because what is the meaning of skew for a multiple choice item?

Details

Basically combines score.items with a conversion from multiple choice to right/wrong.

The item-whole correlation is inflated because of item overlap.

The example data set is taken from the Synthetic Aperture Personality Assessment personality and ability test at https://www.sapa-project.org/.

Value

scores	Subject scores on one scale
missing	Number of missing items for each subject
item.stats	scoring key, response frequencies, item whole correlations, n subjects scored, mean, sd, skew, kurtosis and se for each item
alpha	Cronbach's coefficient alpha
av.r	Average interitem correlation

Author(s)

William Revelle

See Also

score.items, omega

Examples

if(require(psychTools)) {
data(psychTools::iqitems)
iq.keys <- c(4,4,4, 6,6,3,4,4,  5,2,2,4,  3,2,6,7)
score.multiple.choice(iq.keys,psychTools::iqitems)
#just convert the items to true or false 
iq.tf <- score.multiple.choice(iq.keys,psychTools::iqitems,score=FALSE)
describe(iq.tf)  #compare to previous results
}

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