Multiplke Choice Questions
These type of tests are usefull to see if your students are retaining the knowledge you are teaching them....
I agree, Multiple choices they information or not.understand if they either know they information or not.
Hi Stacey- I agree that using a variety of assessment types is the way to go. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career! Susan
After taking this module I understand the benefits of Multiple Choice testing a little better but I have never been a huge fan of them myself. I agree that they can create some anxiety and second guessing, it happens to me when I take them! If they are well written I suppose I could see them being more of a benefit but in my experience there always seems to be two answers that are clearly wrong and two that are so similar that it leads to obsessing over semantics and guessing in the end. At my school we are encouraged to create tests that have a variety of testing styles on each test to reach out to every student. This helps to lessen their anxiety.
I am still not a big fan of multiple choice questions. Like in the ED103 course, it talks about constructing tests that don't use double negatives and so forth, but I find sometimes that some answers are devised to be too close to the correct answer and can be reasoned to sway into the other direction. Besides, some students fear multiple choice questions especially if they are timed and start rushing answers thinking they maybe behind. They have a mental block then fail the test. But their final project was amazing, way higher quality than the other students, but fail the class because they freeze on multiple questions?
I agree multiple choice is an excellent way to test a students knowledge on a subject. Depending on what they get wrong, can also show you what they where thinking when they chose that paticular answer.
multiple choice tests are a good way to make sure the student is understanding and retaining the everything he or she has been taught.
I agree Roger. Working through why the wrong choices are "wrong" serves to reinforce why the right choices are "right"
i also find multiple choice tests to be helpful. when i have student that has a question over a test answer we can work thru the rest of thchoices and either eliminate of prove the right answer
I agree and it also gives you a simple way to evaluate their progress
