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- Title: Essay Versus Multiple-Choice: Student Preferences and the Underlying Rationale with Implications for Test Construction (Report)
- Author : Academy of Educational Leadership Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 249 KB
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INTRODUCTION Many universities are experiencing budget cuts that result in larger classes. The need to teach these larger classes without suffering an excessive reduction in the amount of time available for research and service-related endeavors exerts pressure on faculty to make increasing use of multiple-choice questions on quizzes and exams. Although multiple-choice questions provide the obvious benefit of being easier to grade, their use is in conflict with the intuitive feelings of many faculty that multiple-choice questions are inferior to essays and other open-ended forms of assessment both as a measure and as a promoter of student learning.
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