Scoring Multiple Choice Tests Overview  Our main answer sheet
for use in general-purpose classroom testing is the University
of Alberta General Purpose Answer Sheet which accommodates 200
five-choice questions, 50 twenty-choice questions and 2 fields
for entry of instructor-scored sections of a test used, for
example, to enter marks from essay questions.  A significant
feature of our services is built on an Item Analysis program
that is still being enhanced after 40 years of use involving
migration through a series of hardware and operating-system
platforms. The description, Classical Test Theory, is clearly
appropriate for this program. Inspection of item analysis
reports can be very useful for identifying problems with a test
or its scoring including something as simple as miscoding the
answer sheet containing the keyed responses. The wealth of
detail included in the reports from this program becomes more
informative as the size of the class increases (as artifacts of
sampling decrease). Following the inspe