Test developers have at their disposal a number of statistical tools that may be applied when selecting items for use on a test. In Chapter 8's Meet an Assessment Professional, Dr. Scott Birkeland made reference to two such techniques. One was a measure of item discrimination, and the other was a measure of item

A. difficulty.
B. reliability.
C. utility.
D. variance.


Answer: A

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