True/False versus Short Answer Questions.

Cirn, John T.

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Publication Date: 1986

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True/False versus Short Answer Questions.

Cirn, John T.

College Teaching, v34 n1 p34-37 Win 1986

A comparison of the actual final grade distribution with what the grade distributions would have been had only the true/false components or the short-answer components been used is presented. The responses to a course evaluation survey that asked students to compare the two types of questions are summarized. (MLW)

Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Constructed Response, Course Evaluation, Essay Tests, Higher Education, Objective Tests, Participant Satisfaction, Student Attitudes, Surveys, Test Format, Testing

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