ABSTRACT
Traditionally multiple choice (MC) items are scored binary. One point is earned when the correct answer is chosen and none are when any of the incorrect options (hereafter called "distractors") are chosen. This facilitates data analysis but it also entails the loss of information contained in the distracters (e.g., Levine & Drasgow, 1983). That is, we loose the information contained in the fact that there are different ways to answer an item incorrectly.
