Abstract
The use of a general formula, the solution to a special case of the classical occupancy problem, for estimating the probability of chance success on any one-to-one objective test item is reviewed. It is noted that it may on occasion be more appropriate to write items with more than one correct answer and that the chance success formula for this situation is the hypergeometric distribution.
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