Given the data below, answer the following questions:

-Why are items 18-20 not scored?
A) The administrator ran out of time so the questions were not asked.
B) The student refused to answer.
C) The student hit the ceiling so the questions did not need to be administered.
D) They are extra questions that do not need to be administered.

Question

Given the data below, answer the following questions:

-Why are items 18-20 not scored?
A) The administrator ran out of time so the questions were not asked. 
B) The student refused to answer. 
C) The student hit the ceiling so the questions did not need to be administered. 
D) They are extra questions that do not need to be administered.

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The term "ceiling" refers to the highest level of difficulty that a student can achieve with a given test or set of test items. It is possible that the student in this case answered all preceding questions correctly, leading to a presumption that the difficulty level of items 18-20 would be too low to effectively measure their ability. Therefore, it was unnecessary to administer those questions.

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