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Multiple-Choice Questions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Roy L. Bishop
Roy L. Bishop*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, BOP 1X0, Canada

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Although few people enjoy tests and examinations, these aspects of education appear to be essential to the maintenance of standards, and they provide a vital learning environment for both students and instructor. Opinions regarding “objective,” or “multiple-choice,” questions range from very positive, which is my own qualified opinion, to very negative. In the latter instance, some claim that such questions should never be used, and refer derisively to multiple-choice questions as “multiple-guess questions.”

Type
3. The Teaching Process
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 105: The Teaching of Astronomy , 1990 , pp. 83 - 87
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990