Thursday, July 12, 2007

How Multiple Choice and T & F Tests Work



Multiple Choice/T&F Tests: Tests that are made up with overly vague or overly specific questions with 2 or more possible answers where only 1 answer is correct.

Why you need to know this: You really don't.

Multiple choice and T&F tests were devised by lazy professors and teachers so that grading can be done quicker and easier. Good questions for these test contain several correct answers but only one of those answers is the right correct one. The quest for the student is to obtain mind-reading skills and know exactly what the professor means regardless of what is written. These tests are extremely accurate in scoring mind-reading skills.

Example of a great test question:

T or F: Biology is correct.

The obvious answer is false. If you thought it was true, then you would completely flunk a biology test because you couldn't answer a biology question correctly. Another great way to test is to tell your students incorrect information and then test over the correct information. It's not lying if they didn't look it up in resources other than the textbook.

Multiple choice tests work by adding the option "none of the above" and putting synonyms for all the other choices. Since all the choices are technically correct, students will have to use their mind-reading skills to know that you don't want the technically correct answer. Remember, there is only one way to solve every problem and it's your way.

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