Multiple choice questions are often frowned on as an assessment tool in higher education. But when well constructed, they offer a clear and transparent way of evaluating student progress, as Anthony ...

Well-written multiple-choice items can deepen thinking and learning, rather than simply challenging students to recall basic ...

No form of assessment is perfect, but when done properly, multiple-choice questions have their benefits. Shutterstock even successful, able and committed students – those who become university ...

In an excellent column, Ray Schroeder, senior fellow for the Association of Leaders in Online and Professional Education, laments the tendency for many instructors to rely on text-specific test banks ...

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 ...