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If you answered no to the previous question, rewrite any problematic response options to correct the inadequacies, and explain why the revision was needed.

Which of the item-writing guidelines, if any, are violated by this item? (Write “none” if no guidelines are violated.)

According to the guidelines provided in the text, which of the following is the best example of a properly written supply-type item?

Which of the following is the best example of a good short-answer item?

A study is designed to examine the effect of exercise (against no exercise) on knee pain, with measurements taken at 1 week, 3 weeks, and 6 weeks.  Participants are randomly assigned to one of the exercise conditions.  The appropriate design would be:

A researcher studied 100 patients to determine if there was a significant difference among five drugs for relief of arthritis pain.  Pain was measured using a standardized scale from 0-100, with 0 indicating no pain.   The decrease in pain over 1 month was evaluated.  A one-way ANOVA was significant, and the results below show the amount of pain relief using a Student-Newman Keuls comparison.  Which of the following statements is not a correct conclusion?

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A study was designed to compare three groups on balance scores following three types of balance training.  33 patients are randomly assigned to the two groups in a pretest-posttest design.  An ANOVA resulted in F (2, 30) =3.25, p = .07,

Course Feedback: How could the integration of ChatGPT into the course be improved in the future? (‘None’ if you have no feedback)

A researcher has established a correlation of –.29 (p = .002) between knee strength and weight in adults.  Based on this outcome, the relationship between strength and weight is: