It looks like other multiple choice tests but it’s not, so skills that were well developed in years of standardized testing are rendered irrelevant. 2) multiple choice is only one axis of evaluation ...

[This is a guest post by Derek Bruff, an assistant director of the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University, where he is also a senior lecturer in Mathematics. His book, Teaching with Classroom ...

Use a No. 2 pencil, fill out each circle completely, and don't make any stray marks--these are rules every child learns when taking standardized tests that are largely based on multiple choice. But ...

Walking out of an exam room can leave students with a variety of different emotions. Frustration, especially over how the exam was structured, could be considered among the worst. “I’m really cynical ...

Ideally, multiple-choice exams would be random, without patterns of right or wrong answers. However, all tests are written by humans, and human nature makes it impossible for any test to be truly ...

Medical, dental and master's students in biomedical sciences frequently take standardized, multiple-choice question tests to assess their foundational knowledge. Reasons for its widespread use include ...

If you told me a year ago that in a year I’d be writing about how I love chemistry, I probably would have laughed in your face. Around that time, I was miserably glued to Problem Roulette, an online ...

The National Conference of Bar Examiners' Testing Task Force has released a report on the input it received from legal educators, bar examiners and others on what's working with the bar exam, and how ...

Can someone explain to me why so many examinations have become multiple choice instead of direct questions requiring you to work out the answer by reasoned deduction? In my youth it was common to ...