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Download full textDiBattista, David – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2008
Multiple-choice questions are widely used in higher education and have some important advantages over constructed-response test questions. It seems, however, that many teachers underestimate the value of multiple-choice questions, believing them to be useful only for assessing how well students can memorize information, but not for assessing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multiple Choice Tests, Retention (Psychology), Cognitive Tests
