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Making an exam

A person of the less-informed variety made a comment that a multiple choice exam is indicative of a lazy professor. It took a lot of self-control hold my tongue. Fortunately, I don't have to hold back on theSpoke.

A multiple choice exam is easy to check, but a good multiple choice exam is very difficult to make. Case in point, I spent half of today making only 12 questions for an exam for my class.

So I beg to disagree with the aforementioned person's assertion. I like multiple choice exams because they are easy to check, but they are very hard to make.

posted on Saturday, May 20, 2006 7:43 PM by Didith

# re: Making an exam @ Saturday, May 20, 2006 7:37 AM

hahaha, in my case, having smart alecks are just too damn annoying at times

Aids

# re: Making an exam @ Saturday, May 20, 2006 9:20 AM

Interestingly, the same issue came up in my class when my students were asking about their first exam.

I agree though, that making multiple choice exams are harder to make, compared to other types.

I think the challenge lies in the aspect of having to think of "really close bogus possible answers" to go with the accurate answer.

Or maybe, it's just me. Haha!

thejess

# re: Making an exam @ Tuesday, May 23, 2006 1:04 AM

haha... well for me Identification is for students who likes memorizing definitions. I'd go with a well composed multiple choice exams, where they'll have to choose among different possible answers.

mjpanes

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