Students around the country are gearing up for final exams, including often-disparaged multiple choice tests. Is their bad rap deserved?... Multiple choice tests are: A. Only effective for assessing ...

Students everywhere are preparing for end of term exams. Multiple choice tasks are among the most frequently used exam forms in undergraduate education. They are cheap; they can be used in mass ...

Like many issues in education policy, student assessment tends to produce views that crystallize around a false dichotomy. Either our perpetually new and improving multiple-choice tests are the only ...

Although people often think about multiple-choice tests as tools for assessment, they can also be used to facilitate learning. A new study offers straightforward tips for constructing multiple-choice ...

I was delighted to read Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig’s essay on the demise of the multiple-choice exam because, if these futurists are correct, we will see changes in education even more ...

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When I was in school, multiple-choice exams were the backbone of testing. Teachers relied on them because they were efficient: Scantron sheets could be graded quickly, objectively and consistently.

Multiple-choice questions don’t belong in college. They’re often ineffective as a teaching tool, they’re easy for students to cheat, and they can exacerbate test anxiety. Yet more professors seem to ...

There is an adage in education that what you test guides what you teach. Those who care about democracy may soon have reason to celebrate, as the California Legislature is currently weighing a ...

Multiple-choice tests and quizzes are an effective tool for: assessing a student's mastery of facts and concepts; helping students learn and retain facts and concepts. While some educators might see ...

According to an article just published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, the answer — perhaps surprisingly — can sometimes be choice D. But it depends on how multiple choice questions ...