ltm (version 0.8-9)

mult.choice: Multiple Choice Items to Binary Responses

Description

It converts multiple choice items to a matrix of binary responses.

Usage

mult.choice(data, correct)

Arguments

data

a matrix or a data.frame containing the manifest variables as columns.

correct

a vector of length ncol(data) with the correct responses.

Value

• a matrix of 0/1 values indicating wrong/correct answers.

Examples

dat <- data.frame(cbind(It1 = sample(4, 100, TRUE),
                        It2 = sample(4, 100, TRUE),
                        It3 = sample(5, 100, TRUE),
                        It4 = sample(5, 100, TRUE),
                        It5 = sample(4, 100, TRUE),
                        It6 = sample(5, 100, TRUE)))
dat[] <- lapply(dat, function (x) { x[sample(100, 4)] <- NA; x })
crct <- c(3, 2, 5, 3, 4, 5)
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mult.choice(dat, crct)