If an item-discrimination index is negative,

A. low scorers are more likely to have answered the item correctly than high scorers.
B. the alternate form of the test is probably not equivalent.
C. the computer scoring is in error because this index is not supposed to be negative.
D. high scorers are more likely to have answered the item correctly than low scorers.


Answer: A

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