With over 150 students papers to grade, and giving
quizzes/tests several times per week, I think multiple
choice, true-false, and two-column matching is a
real sensible way to administer tests. Especially, if
the questions and possible answer choices are given to the students scrambled.
The bright kids score consistently high; and the not-so
bright kids score consistently low. So I don't see what is to gain by not using mutiple choice testing.
Further, very, very simple questions can be constructed
using the multiple choice format and oftentimes several of the
students' selecting the same wrong answer lets me
know of the more common students' erroneous assumptions/thoughts/thinking.
As for the speed and ease of grading with the Scantron reader, there just is no better way!
I'll take Multiple Choice any day!
The Old Pro
<italic>The Old Pro
http://pw1.netcom.com/~jgajniak/teacher.html
Math Teacher
Los Angeles, California
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