Multiple-Choice Testing in Education: Are the Best Practices for Assessment Also Good for Learning? Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition , 2018; 7 (3): 323 DOI: 10.1016/j.jarmac ...

Daniel M. Bolt, Allan S. Cohen, James A. Wollack, A Mixture Item Response Model for Multiple-Choice Data, Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, Vol. 26 ...

Instructors can upgrade -- or, better yet, bypass -- conventional test-bank multiple-choice items. In doing so, we simultaneously increase the relevance of these assessments and promote academic ...

This paper describes an item response model for multiple-choice items and illustrates its application in item analysis. The model provides parametric and graphical summaries of the performance of each ...

Educators know that it is important to assess student knowledge with a variety of question types and methods to obtain the best understanding of student proficiency of learning standards. In addition, ...

This multiple choice moratorium makes even more sense when standardized tests include open-ended items in addition to multiple choice items, as is the case in my home state of Pennsylvania.

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 ...

For example, a multiple-choice question could ... "One takeaway from these recommendations is that the most effective multiple-choice items get students to think in ways that are ...