A nurse educator is evaluating the quality of a newly developed test item. Which item analysis statistic indicates an acceptable level of item difficulty?
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A
A p-value (difficulty index) between 0.30 and 0.70
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B
A p-value greater than 0.90 indicating most students answered correctly
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C
A discrimination index below 0.00
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D
A point-biserial correlation close to zero