Experimental matrices items were constructed to isolate the effect of option rotation and reflection on item difficulty. Results for 91 first to fifth graders showed no significant difference in difficulty for the two test forms and neither rotation nor reflection predicted item difficulty. The strongest predictor of item difficulty was number of task dimensions.
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