Which of the following characteristics should a well-written distractor on a multiple-choice question have?

a. About 25% of the students should select it when there are four response choices
b. Very few students should select it regardless of how well they did overall
c. It should be selected by more students who did poorly on the test than by high-achieving students
d. Roughly equal proportions of high- and low-achieving students should select it


c. It should be selected by more students who did poorly on the test than by high-achieving students

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