major Stem Quality

Double-barreled question

Item Writing Best Practices, Rule 7

Rule ID

stem-07

Description

Flag stems containing "and/or" or asking two things at once with multiple verbs joined by "and".

Detection

This rule is checked deterministically by the rule engine — no LLM required. Violations are detected via text analysis, pattern matching, and structural checks.

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