Posts Tagged ‘multiple choice tests’
January 12 - Short Answer Questions: A Great Middle Ground
By: Susan Codone, PhD in Educational Assessment
Stronger than multiple choice, yet not quite as revealing (or time consuming to grade) as the essay question, the short answer question offers a great middle ground – the chance to measure a student’s brief composition of facts, concepts, and attitudes in a paragraph or less.
May 1 - Assessing Online Learning: Strategies, Challenges and Opportunities
By: Mary Bart in Educational Assessment, Free Reports, Online Education
If you want insight into how to assess online learning at the course, program, and institutional levels, you’ll want to download this new special report that will help you create more effective online assessment exercises and strategies.
May 1 - Creating Better Multiple-Choice Tests for Online Courses
By: Patti Shank, PhD, CPT in Educational Assessment, Online Education
Multiple-choice tests are commonly used to assess achievement of learning objectives because they can be efficient. Despite their widespread use, they’re often poorly designed. Poorly written multiple-choice tests are equally damaging in classroom-based and online courses, but in online courses learners often have to contend with more challenges, and poor assessments can add insult to
April 1 - Survey of College Faculty Reveals Increases in Student-Centered Teaching and Evaluation Methods
By: Mary Bart in Teaching and Learning, Trends in Higher Education
Helping students develop critical-thinking skills and discipline-specific knowledge remain at the forefront of faculty goals for undergraduate education, with 99.6 percent of faculty indicating that critical-thinking skills are “very important” or “essential” and 95.1 percent saying the same of discipline-specific knowledge. Other top goals include helping students to evaluate the quality and reliability of information (97.2 percent) and promoting the ability to write more effectively (96.4 percent).
January 14 - Rethinking Multiple Choice Tests for Assessing Student Learning
By: Mary Bart in Educational Assessment, Teaching and Learning
If you think multiple choice tests are only good to assess how well students memorized facts, it may be time to rethink your testing strategy. Although they are not appropriate for every situation, when properly developed, multiple choice tests can used to assess higher levels of thinking, including application and analysis.
