21. Making the Most of Multiple-Choice Questions: Getting Beyond Remembering

21. Making the Most of Multiple-Choice Questions: Getting Beyond Remembering

Multiple-choice questions are widely used in higher education and have some important advantages over constructed-response test questions. It seems, however, that many teachers underestimate the value of multiple-choice questions, believing them to be useful only for assessing how well students can...

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Main Author: David DiBattista
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Windsor 2011-07-01
Series:Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching
Online Access:https://celt.uwindsor.ca/index.php/CELT/article/view/3190
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