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Title: Writing and Evaluating MultipleChoice Exams


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Writing and Evaluating Multiple-Choice Exams
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Advantages of Multiple-Choice Exams
  • Ease of grading
  • Ability to assess performance
  • Evaluate
  • Track changes
  • Avoidance of grader bias
  • Ability to cover broad topics

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Disadvantages of Multiple-Choice Exams
  • Lengthy writing time
  • Limited response variables
  • Not necessarily limited to 5 depends upon
    hardware
  • Test bank questions provided by publishers are
    often not well-written
  • Good questions are difficult to write

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Myths of Multiple-Choice Exams
  • Cant ask questions that require higher-order
    thought processes
  • Questions are limited to definitions or
    identification
  • Questions focus on memorization of facts
  • These exams are for the lazy instructor

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Testing Skills
  • Students learn to identify the correct answer
    from the way the question is written
  • Longest answer
  • Use of absolutes
  • All of the Aboves
  • None of None of the Aboves
  • Correct answer has a portion of the stem or
    question buried with in it.

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Things to Avoid
  • Interdependence of questions
  • Consistent use of All of the Above
  • Language that contains bias
  • General stem with divergent answers

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Interdependence of Questions
  • A car leaves New York, NY and travels 2780 miles
    to Los Angeles, CA. If the car was traveling
    constantly at 63 mph, who many hours would it
    take to get to L.A.?
  • If the Satellite radio station cycled through its
    play list every 5.5 hours, how many times would
    the passengers have to listen to Mandy by Barry
    Manilow?

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Biasing Language
  • You are walking on the street in a village in
    Wales. You notice a man selling apples from a
    cart. You ask how much the apples cost. He
    replies, One tanner. You ask for 4 apples and
    pull out a sovereign. How much change should you
    get with you apples?
  • 2 florin/3 bob
  • 2 shillings/9 pence
  • 6 crown/2 bob
  • 6 shillings/3 pence
  • 3 half-crowns

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General Stem Divergent Answers
  • Veterinary medicine
  • Only focuses on animal health and welfare.
  • Captures 5 of household income.
  • Was founded in 1962 by James Herriot.
  • Has initiated many advances in nutrition.
  • Is harder to get into than human medicine.

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A Better Question
  • Dont ask What is..?, ask What if?
  • Take a process in your subject that can be
    diagrammed
  • Decision tree
  • Flow Charts
  • Reactions
  • Sequential events
  • Ask for interpretation

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A Better Question
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A Better Question
  • Chose the graph that best represents the
    relationship between Teaching Load (Independent
    Variable) and Likelihood of Tenure (Dependent
    Variable).
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