Celal Bayar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, cilt.2, sa.2, ss.123-131, 2004 (Hakemli Dergi)
Guessing scores that an examinee can have get a high score by chance in a multiplechoice test decrease the reliability and validity of the test scores, when it is used to assess the
achievement level of students. When students are successful in real situation, their guessing scores
are lower than the guessing scores of students, not successful in reality. This condition causes some
amount of systematical errors in test scores. It is a fact that, that is a technical error. In fact , this
situation is not fair for the students being successful in reality. In this article, the necessity of
handling this misapplication in scoring multiple-choice test was explained, and an alternative
scoring technique was suggested to solve this technical problem