Relationship between types of distractor and difficulty of multiple-choice vocabulary tests in sentential context

Language Testing in Asia

Table 3 Descriptive statistics with different types of distractors when unknown expressions did and did not exist in the proposition (proportion)

	Distractor	n of items	M	SD
With unknown expressions in proposition	PARA	13	43.18	50.11
	SYN	13	44.90	50.25
	CON	13	47.37	51.30
Without unknown expressions in proposition	PARA	13	62.96	48.40
	SYN	13	68.25	46.67
	CON	13	81.74	38.71