Students around the country are gearing up for final exams, including often-disparaged multiple choice tests. Is their bad rap deserved? Commentator Tania Lombrozo looks at some research ...

If done intelligently, multiple choice tests not only are capable of testing facts but also the understanding of principles. These are the bright sides of multiple choice testing.

Like many issues in education policy, student assessment tends to produce views that crystallize around a false dichotomy. Either our perpetually new and improving multiple-choice tests are the only ...

Multiple-choice tests, she says, are a great evaluative tool. But like any tool, they must be well crafted and correctly employed.

David Ginsburg says a key to preparing kids for standardized multiple choice tests is to NOT give them multiple choice questions in class.

Multiple-choice testing has become the standard measurement of academic achieve-ment not simply because the tests are easy to administer but more because they normalize the deep anti ...

Shutterstock 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 ...

Although people often think about multiple-choice tests as tools for assessment, they can also be used to facilitate learning. A new study offers straightforward tips for constructing multiple ...

The Biden administration revealed plans Wednesday to rewrite the test to become a U.S. citizen, making it a multiple-choice exam and changing the way applicants must demonstrate their knowledge of ...

In fact, the benefit of testing is much higher than the harm from connecting a question to wrong answers. This advantage of testing alone would be enough to reject a ban of multiple choice tests.

Multiple-choice tests, she says, are a great evaluative tool. But like any tool, they must be well crafted and correctly employed. Montepare described her creative assessment methods in the October ...

While multiple-choice testing, especially repeated testing, has the potential to strengthen our recall, a poorly formatted test question can have the opposite effect, Butler said.